ClassInfo - Spring 2017 Cultural Stdy/Comparative Lit Classes

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Spring 2017 | CSCL 3910 Section 001: Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature -- Sound Studies (69571)

Instructor(s): Sumanth Gopinath
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM

UMTC, East Bank

Amundson Hall 156

Course Catalog Description:: Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Description:: CSCL 3910 (Sound Studies) is an introductory course on the emerging field of sound studies, in which scholars investigate and critically examine sound as a broadly cultural phenomenon and as an object of historical inquiry. Countering a generally ocular bias within much of the humanities and social sciences, sound studies is an intersection of several fields of study, including cultural and social history, musicology and ethnomusicology, art history (esp. sound art and installation), media studies, research on sound design in audiovisual media (film, television, video games), disability studies, and philosophy and cultural theory (of sound and listening). (In its merging and combining of disciplines, sound studies appears, in the last instance, to be a form of cultural studies, although the two are of course not synonymous; it is perhaps best understood as an "auditory culture" studies parallel to the more established field of visual culture studies.) In this course, students will be required to master a body of knowledge (a representative selection of readings in sound studies), understand the way that sound as a broadly defined subject of study affects and redirects scholarship in a variety of scholarly fields, and demonstrate effective communication by writing short response papers and two lengthier essays over the course of the semester.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69571/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 8 December 2013

Spring 2017 | CSCL 3910 Section 002: Topics in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature -- Romantic Revolutions and Arabic Literature (70727)

Instructor(s): Mohammed Sharafuddin
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017

Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM

UMTC, East Bank

Vincent Hall 313

Course Catalog Description:: Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Description:: This course examines the literary, cultural and political responses to the theme of "revolution" in Arabic poetry, short stories and novels from the French Revolution to today. Some writers espoused the cause of intellectual and political liberation, as in the works of the early Revivalists (Abdu, Afghani and Kawakibi and al-Shabbi), while in the twentieth-century modernists called for personal as well as intellectual freedom from traditional restrictions. The impact of these literary trends can still be felt today, having left their mark on the events of 2011, when the Arab Spring Revolutions took place ushering in a new awareness of Arab causes and of the concept of revolution itself. The course will be taught in English and will appeal to students interested in the Arab world, and in literary and revolutionary political movements which remain central in the modern world more broadly.
Grading:: Standard options.
Exam Format:: Two essays assignments, one at the mid-term (4-5 pages) one as a final (6-7 pages).
Workload:: Students will examine the literary, cultural and political responses to the theme of "revolution" in Arabic poetry, short stories and novels from the French Revolution to today. two essays assignments, one at the mid-term (4-5 pages) one as a final (6-7 pages).
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/70727/1173

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