Spring 2017  |  HIST 3416 Section 001: Imperialism and its Critics: Ethical Issues, Literary Representations (68048)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
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 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 135
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Course Catalog Description:
Significant episodes of several imperial nations to underscore themes of ethics/literature.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?plorcin+HIST3416+Spring2017
Class Description:
During the course of the semester this course will seek to answer the following questions: What ethical discourses form part of imperialist ideology? What ethical discourses form part of anti-imperialist activity? How successful is each group in subverting the ethical messages of the other? What role does literature play in promoting or subverting the ideologies and ethical issues related to imperialism and anti-imperialism? By examining different genres (novels, poems, memoirs, letters and orations) the class will explore the discursive power of literature and the ways in which it influenced or was influenced by social and political discourses and practices. It will explore how these different forms of communication served different personal, political, social and cultural agendas without forgetting their collective relevance. The focus on ethics will help to highlight the ambiguities and distortions that occur between ethical discourses and political, social and cultural practices. The concentration on different genres of literature will help students to understand that the boundaries between fiction and reality are often as blurred in memoirs and letters as they are in novels and poetry. The course is not about the imperialism as practiced by one particular power; nor is the approach strictly chronological. Rather it uses different episodes in the imperialist trajectory of a number of imperial nations to underscore themes that are relevant to the understanding of the ethical issues and literary representations connected to imperialism.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68048/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
2 April 2013

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