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Spring 2018 | ENGL 3960W Section 001: Capstone Seminar in English (67991)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 124
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (15 of 17 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is devoted to the writing of the senior paper in English. To graduate with a BA in English, students must write a 13-17 page (4,000-5,500 word) senior paper that contains substantive and original analytical insights. In this rigorous and intensive seminar, students receive instruction on writing this paper from tenured and tenure-track faculty in English. Students learn how to choose a topic and formulate a research question, conduct primary and secondary research, and produce a written document that incorporates research and analysis. Faculty teach students to produce an extended, scholarly essay though discussions of method, research, and development; instruction in specific writing techniques; workshopping and revising drafts; solving problems; and creating a coherent and elegant final product. While the subjects about which students write vary depending on student interest and faculty expertise, at least 50% of the course grade is determined by students' writing performance. Most students fulfill the senior paper requirement with a traditional seminar paper, but students sometimes complete alternative projects, such as blogs, analytic projects that incorporate creative or personal elements, collaborative projects, or projects that involve the creation of a podcast, video, web site, or some other means of documenting student learning and writing skills. The senior seminar also functions as a capstone experience that fulfills many of the Student Learning Outcomes for the English major. Prerequisites for Admission: Admission to ENGL 3960W requires English major status and completion of ENGL 3001W with a minimum grade of C-minus. Priority will be given to students with senior status who have completed the majority of the major requirements, as well as to students who plan to graduate in the term they are requesting to take the senior seminar.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?lcucullu+ENGL3960W+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- "Super Sleuths: The Making of Modern Detective Fiction" investigates the rising popularity of crime fiction over the course of the 19th century and the appearance of its eventual foil, the modern detective, made legendary by Edgar Allan Poe's Auguste Dupin and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. Among the mysteries we'll likely take up alongside Dupin's and Holmes's fiction are Wilkie Collins's Moonstone, regarded as one of the first detective novels in English, and Rudyard Kipling's stories of imperial sleuthing featuring Inspector Strickland. As well, we shall consider film's leap into the genre in the 20th century with the likes of John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (1941), based on Dashiell Hammett's noir novel that introduced the hard-boiled detective Sam Spade, and the Coen brothers' neo-noir crime thriller Fargo (1996). Among the questions we'll tackle are these. Why does this evident cultural obsession with stories about crime not just emerge but also flourish? How do we explain the rise and fall of a mortal and moral modern super hero? What are the origins of profiling criminal behavior? What impact does film have on the genre? Regardless of any crime solving expertise, seniors will have an opportunity to apply their analytical skills and literary knowledge to a field that continues to shape 21st century modernity.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67991/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 September 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 3960W Section 002: Capstone Seminar in English (67992)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankBlegen Hall 105
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (17 of 17 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is devoted to the writing of the senior paper in English. To graduate with a BA in English, students must write a 13-17 page (4,000-5,500 word) senior paper that contains substantive and original analytical insights. In this rigorous and intensive seminar, students receive instruction on writing this paper from tenured and tenure-track faculty in English. Students learn how to choose a topic and formulate a research question, conduct primary and secondary research, and produce a written document that incorporates research and analysis. Faculty teach students to produce an extended, scholarly essay though discussions of method, research, and development; instruction in specific writing techniques; workshopping and revising drafts; solving problems; and creating a coherent and elegant final product. While the subjects about which students write vary depending on student interest and faculty expertise, at least 50% of the course grade is determined by students' writing performance. Most students fulfill the senior paper requirement with a traditional seminar paper, but students sometimes complete alternative projects, such as blogs, analytic projects that incorporate creative or personal elements, collaborative projects, or projects that involve the creation of a podcast, video, web site, or some other means of documenting student learning and writing skills. The senior seminar also functions as a capstone experience that fulfills many of the Student Learning Outcomes for the English major. Prerequisites for Admission: Admission to ENGL 3960W requires English major status and completion of ENGL 3001W with a minimum grade of C-minus. Priority will be given to students with senior status who have completed the majority of the major requirements, as well as to students who plan to graduate in the term they are requesting to take the senior seminar.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?farbe004+ENGL3960W+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- Lyric poetry is the poetry of the "I," the poetry of a speaker's individual voice. In this seminar, we will examine a variety of ways that poets over time have created such a voice and used it to convey emotion, opinion, analysis, and personality. We will delve into topics such as constructing a self; persuasion and debate; fair forms; elegy; poetry and social identity; history and regionality; and attitudes, values and judgments. In each case we will examine a wide historical and stylistic range of poetry to determine ways poets build and use these elements in particular lyric poems. After a series of such investigations, seminar members will choose a poem or group of poems on which to write their capstone papers. We will all become familiar with the poems each member is examining, and will spend the second part of the seminar discussing methodology and workshopping capstone papers. No previous experience with poetry is required, but a love of (or openness to) lyric poetry is very helpful. Will we read poems by Ashberry, Auden, Bishop, Cullen, Dickinson, Eliot, Heaney, Hopkins, Lee, Lowell, Marvell, Milton, Muldoon, Plath, Rich, Thomas, Shakespeare, Williamson, Wyatt, and Yeats, among others.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67992/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 20 September 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 3960W Section 003: Capstone Seminar in English (67993)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue, Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 202
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (6 of 12 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is devoted to the writing of the senior paper in English. To graduate with a BA in English, students must write a 13-17 page (4,000-5,500 word) senior paper that contains substantive and original analytical insights. In this rigorous and intensive seminar, students receive instruction on writing this paper from tenured and tenure-track faculty in English. Students learn how to choose a topic and formulate a research question, conduct primary and secondary research, and produce a written document that incorporates research and analysis. Faculty teach students to produce an extended, scholarly essay though discussions of method, research, and development; instruction in specific writing techniques; workshopping and revising drafts; solving problems; and creating a coherent and elegant final product. While the subjects about which students write vary depending on student interest and faculty expertise, at least 50% of the course grade is determined by students' writing performance. Most students fulfill the senior paper requirement with a traditional seminar paper, but students sometimes complete alternative projects, such as blogs, analytic projects that incorporate creative or personal elements, collaborative projects, or projects that involve the creation of a podcast, video, web site, or some other means of documenting student learning and writing skills. The senior seminar also functions as a capstone experience that fulfills many of the Student Learning Outcomes for the English major. Prerequisites for Admission: Admission to ENGL 3960W requires English major status and completion of ENGL 3001W with a minimum grade of C-minus. Priority will be given to students with senior status who have completed the majority of the major requirements, as well as to students who plan to graduate in the term they are requesting to take the senior seminar.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jani+ENGL3960W+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- Modern US Fictions: Object, Food, RoomsDrawing on the categories that Gertrude Stein used to explore the word and her world in her 1914 "cubist" text, Tender Buttons, this class looks at American fiction, poetry, film, and mass culture, as well as theoretical texts that explore questions related to "objects and things," "food, eating, and embodiment," and "rooms, space, and place." We will begin with Stein's experimental text Tender Buttons and move through a range of other thematically-related texts from the 20th-21st centuries (including works by Abraham Cahan, Langston Hughes, Maya Deren, Frank O'Hara, Cathy Song, David and Albert Maysles, and others).
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67993/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 22 September 2017
Spring 2018 | ENGL 3960W Section 004: Capstone Seminar in English (67994)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- Department Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 121
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (12 of 17 seats filled)
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is devoted to the writing of the senior paper in English. To graduate with a BA in English, students must write a 13-17 page (4,000-5,500 word) senior paper that contains substantive and original analytical insights. In this rigorous and intensive seminar, students receive instruction on writing this paper from tenured and tenure-track faculty in English. Students learn how to choose a topic and formulate a research question, conduct primary and secondary research, and produce a written document that incorporates research and analysis. Faculty teach students to produce an extended, scholarly essay though discussions of method, research, and development; instruction in specific writing techniques; workshopping and revising drafts; solving problems; and creating a coherent and elegant final product. While the subjects about which students write vary depending on student interest and faculty expertise, at least 50% of the course grade is determined by students' writing performance. Most students fulfill the senior paper requirement with a traditional seminar paper, but students sometimes complete alternative projects, such as blogs, analytic projects that incorporate creative or personal elements, collaborative projects, or projects that involve the creation of a podcast, video, web site, or some other means of documenting student learning and writing skills. The senior seminar also functions as a capstone experience that fulfills many of the Student Learning Outcomes for the English major. Prerequisites for Admission: Admission to ENGL 3960W requires English major status and completion of ENGL 3001W with a minimum grade of C-minus. Priority will be given to students with senior status who have completed the majority of the major requirements, as well as to students who plan to graduate in the term they are requesting to take the senior seminar.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ayahav+ENGL3960W+Spring2018
- Class Description:
- This seminar explores the development of nationalism in England during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We will ask what is a nation and what are the historical conditions that enabled the development of this political organization. We will also ask how literature both reflects and actively contributes to nation-formation and nationalist sentiments. Readings will include novels by Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott, and George Eliot as well as scholarship by Linda Colley, Liah Greenfeld, Benedict Anderson, and Eric Hobsbawm.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67994/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 8 September 2017
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