ClassInfo - Fall 2017 English Classes

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Fall 2017 | ENGL 3960W Section 001: Capstone Seminar in English -- The Image on the Page (35055)

Instructor(s): Michael Hancher
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 4 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017

Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 01:10PM

UMTC, East Bank

Mechanical Engineering 221

Course Catalog Description:: Rigorous/intensive seminar. Students write extended scholarly essay. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: English major, [jr or sr], major advisor approval, dept consent
Class Notes:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?mh+ENGL3960W+Fall2017
Class Description:: Before there were movies, TVs, computer screens, and smartphones there were photographs, paintings, and pictures in books and magazines. The familiar saying "A picture is worth a thousand words" applies beyond the ad for which it was coined in 1927. This seminar will examine the production and uses of pictures in distinctive books and magazines that were published as early as 1493 and as late as 2015, most of them housed in the special collections of the University of Minnesota Libraries, which include the Children's Literature Research Collections, the Sherlock Holmes Collections, the James Ford Bell Library of travel and exploration literature, the Ames Library of South Asia, the Givens Collection of African American Literature, the Tretter Collection of GLBT Studies, and the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine. Readings will include historical, psychological, and philosophical accounts of depiction and the perception of pictures, as well as accounts of how pictures illustrate literary texts. Students will introduce many of the books that we will examine during our visits to the several collections. Each student will also select and study an illustrated book or magazine and present a detailed, illustrated account of it to the seminar and write a substantial paper about it.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35055/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 1 March 2017

Fall 2017 | ENGL 3960W Section 002: Capstone Seminar in English -- Other World Journeys (35056)

Instructor(s): Rebecca Krug
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 4 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017

Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 01:10PM

UMTC, East Bank

Folwell Hall 118

Course Catalog Description:: Rigorous/intensive seminar. Students write extended scholarly essay. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: English major, [jr or sr], major advisor approval, dept consent
Class Notes:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?krugx001+ENGL3960W+Fall2017
Class Description:: Other World Journeys

Considers voyages to otherworlds (heaven, hell, unfamiliar locales) in Medieval literature (primarily English but we would also look at Dante, the Book of Revelation, and other influential non English works). Works read include St. Brendan's Voyage, Tundale's Vision, St. Patrick's Purgatory, Piers Plowman, and Pearl. Middle English works will be read in parallel text (Modern and Middle English) editions.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35056/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 22 February 2017

Fall 2017 | ENGL 3960W Section 003: Capstone Seminar in English -- Consumer Culture and Globalization (35057)

Instructor(s): Ellen Messer-Davidow
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 4 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: Department Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/05/2017 - 09/08/2017

Tue, Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PM

UMTC, East Bank

Ford Hall B60

09/09/2017 - 12/13/2017

Tue, Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PM

UMTC, East Bank

Lind Hall 216

Course Catalog Description:

Rigorous/intensive seminar. Students write extended scholarly essay. Topics specified in Class Schedule. prereq: English major, [jr or sr], major advisor approval, dept consent

Class Notes:

http://classinfo.umn.edu/?emd+ENGL3960W+Fall2017

Class Description:

Consumer Culture and Globalization

This course has 4 units of work: (1) introduction to culture and globalization, (2) Fashionomics (production and consumption of apparel-e.g. supply chains & sweat shops, malls & bazaars, advertising); (3) Food Justice (systems of production, sites of consumption-e.g. African farms, UK supermarkets, upscale restaurants, star chefs), and (4) Imagineered Spaces (e.g., Disney World and Orlando, Dubai mall and surrounds). The course is comparative, using material on the US, UK, Africa, India, China, and more.

Textbooks:

https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/35057/1179

Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:

22 February 2017

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