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Spring 2017  |  ENGL 3090 Section 001: General Topics -- Conceiving America (67099)

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3 Credits
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In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
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Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 320
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http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ismai004+ENGL3090+Spring2017
Class Description:
Conceiving America: In this course we will engage three cardinal intersections in U.S. history: independence, abolition and early feminism. From a strictly literary perspective, they could be read as turning around different interpretations of the "same" text, the Declaration of Independence. Our discussions, therefore, will foreground the Declaration. How did the signers ("Founding Fathers") conceive the United States (emphasis in original) of America? As a nation dedicated to ideals (liberty and equality) - or effectively one that privileges a social group (elite white men)? If the latter, was U.S. abolitionism a (patriarchal) critique of the signers' conception of the country? And the feminist movement, which broke with abolitionism over the extension of the franchise to women, in turn a critique of the patriarchy of the abolitionist movement; and, in its Declaration of Sentiments, of the "Founders" themselves? Theoretical, as opposed to historical, in approach, the course will emphasize the concepts at stake,including conceptuality itself, the reading of texts and, thus, the questions of reading and textuality. Authors will include: John Adams, Danielle Allen, Susan B Anthony, Roland Barthes, Kimberele Crenshaw, Jacques Derrida, Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cody Stanton.


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https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67099/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
30 September 2016

Spring 2017  |  ENGL 3090 Section 002: General Topics -- Bodies & Machines: Science/Tech in Lit and Film (68016)

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Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
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Student Option
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No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
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Topics Course
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Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon 04:40PM - 08:10PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 340
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http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kame0026+ENGL3090+Spring2017
Class Description:
BODIES & MACHINES: SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY in LITERATURE & FILM

This course explores the conflicts and conversations that occur at the frontiers of scientific thinking and technological innovation by examining select literary and cinematic texts from a variety of historical moments and points of view. We will consider both the contemporary and historical ethical frameworks, as well as the ambivalence and anxiety, that attend notions of "progress," paying particular attention to the human body interacting with, or being acted upon by, its sci/tech environment. We will also track the archetype of the "mad scientist," whose dangerous knowledge and often-fatal hubris typically turn a tale cautionary. More specifically, we will: 1) engage topics such as electricity, telegraphy, photography, the railroad, the cinema, Fordism, the atomic bomb, genetic engineering, and the Internet 2) read authors such as HG Wells, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, and William Gibson 3) watch films such as Chaplin's and Kubrick's 2001.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68016/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
30 September 2016

Spring 2017  |  ENGL 3090 Section 003: General Topics -- Humans & Other Animals in the Literary Imagination (68296)

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Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
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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
Lind Hall 315
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http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lawle053+ENGL3090+Spring2017
Class Description:
Humans and Other Animals in the Literary Imagination: classical philosophy was predicated on the supposed difference between man and animal, but modern philosophy has been much more interested in our commonalities, particularly those aspects of experience that strip us of humanist sovereignty and draw us closer to our physical vulnerabilities, our dependence on the earth's resources, and our exposure to random danger and death. This course will combine works of literature and philosophy in order to explore the kind of writing that draws thought into creaturely consciousness.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68296/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
12 October 2016

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