ClassInfo - Spring 2017 Cultural Stdy/Comparative Lit Classes

Spring 2017 | CSCL 3557W Section 001: Close Reading (68111)

Instructor(s): Thomas Pepper
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM

UMTC, East Bank

Folwell Hall 119

Course Catalog Description:: History/theory of 'close reading' (i.e., the most intense encounter between reader and text) exemplified through critical texts. Students perform close readings of various texts.
Class Description:: The aim of this course is to make students attentive to the fine structures --lexical, grammatical, rhetorical--of pieces of language. While today's students are confronted with a plethora of information, this does not at all mean that they are prepared for organizing, analyzing, criticizing, and understanding this information. It is more important than ever to show students how to become more attuned to the language which encroaches upon them every day, as well as the language they themselves produce. Knowing implies doing. This is not a lecture course. It is writing intensive. Students are presented with a series of literary, critical, philosophical, and political texts. Both in the dialogic format of the classroom, as well as in several short writing exercises, the students learn to approach verbal language not as something transparent and the meaning of which is given at a glance, but which, on the contrary, is made up of ambiguities, metaphors, unfamiliar words, significant repetitions, allusions, breaks in structure, and elements that resist being reduced to a simple meaning that merely represents a state of affairs in the world.
Grading:: 10% Final Exam
60% Reports/Papers
30% Class Participation
Exam Format:: essay
Class Format:: 30% Lecture
70% Discussion
Workload:: 150 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
4 Paper(s)
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68111/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 4 September 2007

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