Fall 2018 | ENGL 1501W Section 001: Literature and Public Life (18566)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Mon, Wed 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 116
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course explores how literary language builds the collective knowledge, shared reality, and civic relationships that make up public life. Literature's power in the public sphere goes far beyond the quiet, solitary experience of reading. We will investigate how telling stories, documenting events, imagining possibilities, communicating ideals, representing conflict, and even creating fictional characters contribute to public life. Through a wide variety of texts, we will reflect on the nature of public life and on how reading and writing build civic relationships and democratic potential. This course will also offer you two tracks for actively engaging in public life. A service-learning option will give you the experience of building literacy, developing skills in communication and public media, and strengthening roles in work and family. This recommended learning framework can engage your role as a citizen, broaden the impact of your education, and help you explore potential professional interests. Alternatively, an individually designed public project will prompt you to consider the links between literary/media culture, personal action, and public life, and to make your own intervention in these fields. To succeed in all areas of this class you must display active engagement, independent thinking and motivation, and organization.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?fairg002+ENGL1501W+Fall2017
- Class Description:
Telling stories is a fundamental part of human existence; we all do it, all the time, whether we are conscious of it or not. We are drawn to stories, and we use them to make sense of the world around us and our experiences. Thus they are a central component of the ways we negotiate, continuously, between our private selves and the many public roles we play (and, indeed, sometimes the line between public and private is not easy to spot). I am interested in moments when a person's life intersects with something much bigger than themselves: a massive social change, a historical event, another person's very public experiences. How does that affect us, as private citizens?
In our three central readings, we will encounter these issues in a variety of ways. In Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich tells her own story of experiencing, temporarily, a life of low-wage labor, but she also tells the stories of her co-workers for whom low-wage labor is an ongoing fact of life. Susan Collins' dystopic novel The Hunger Games tells a story of one possible future for us all, but also shows her protagonists struggling against the public story that is being built around them. Lin-Manuel Miranda's ground-breaking musical Hamilton uses modern storytelling techniques to retell the story of the founding of our nation, and shows the figures at the center of those events struggling to find their own stories within that larger narrative.
To be successful in all of the aspects of this course, you will need to display active, empathetic engagement;
independent, critical thinking; organization and motivation.A few logistical requirements:
1. You must have hard copy editions of the Ehrenreich and Collins texts. Electronic texts are not acceptable.
2. We will also be listening to and reading the annotated lyrics of Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical Hamilton; the annotated lyrics are available online, and I will provide links to a number of ways to listen to the songs. Thus, while I will encourage you to buy the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the musical, I am not requiring it.
0A- Grading:
- Grading will be based on both informal and formal writing, participation in small groups and whole-class discussions, and other short assignments. If you choose to take this class "S/N" please note that in order for your performance to be considered "Satisfactory" you must complete all of the major assignments. You cannot decide that you have enough points and just not submit one.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18566/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 July 2018
Fall 2018 | ENGL 1501W Section 002: Literature and Public Life (19636)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Mon, Wed 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 156
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (21 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course explores how literary language builds the collective knowledge, shared reality, and civic relationships that make up public life. Literature's power in the public sphere goes far beyond the quiet, solitary experience of reading. We will investigate how telling stories, documenting events, imagining possibilities, communicating ideals, representing conflict, and even creating fictional characters contribute to public life. Through a wide variety of texts, we will reflect on the nature of public life and on how reading and writing build civic relationships and democratic potential. This course will also offer you two tracks for actively engaging in public life. A service-learning option will give you the experience of building literacy, developing skills in communication and public media, and strengthening roles in work and family. This recommended learning framework can engage your role as a citizen, broaden the impact of your education, and help you explore potential professional interests. Alternatively, an individually designed public project will prompt you to consider the links between literary/media culture, personal action, and public life, and to make your own intervention in these fields. To succeed in all areas of this class you must display active engagement, independent thinking and motivation, and organization.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?senev007+ENGL1501W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
Meaning/practice of citizenship. Historical themes, contemporary issues in American public life: access of citizenship, tensions between social duties and individual freedoms, role of moral values in public life. Diverse literary materials. Optional service-learning component.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19636/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 April 2017
Fall 2018 | ENGL 1501W Section 003: Literature and Public Life (19637)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 04:25PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 325
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course explores how literary language builds the collective knowledge, shared reality, and civic relationships that make up public life. Literature's power in the public sphere goes far beyond the quiet, solitary experience of reading. We will investigate how telling stories, documenting events, imagining possibilities, communicating ideals, representing conflict, and even creating fictional characters contribute to public life. Through a wide variety of texts, we will reflect on the nature of public life and on how reading and writing build civic relationships and democratic potential. This course will also offer you two tracks for actively engaging in public life. A service-learning option will give you the experience of building literacy, developing skills in communication and public media, and strengthening roles in work and family. This recommended learning framework can engage your role as a citizen, broaden the impact of your education, and help you explore potential professional interests. Alternatively, an individually designed public project will prompt you to consider the links between literary/media culture, personal action, and public life, and to make your own intervention in these fields. To succeed in all areas of this class you must display active engagement, independent thinking and motivation, and organization.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?merte149+ENGL1501W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
Meaning/practice of citizenship. Historical themes, contemporary issues in American public life: access of citizenship, tensions between social duties and individual freedoms, role of moral values in public life. Diverse literary materials. Optional service-learning component.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19637/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 April 2017
Fall 2018 | ENGL 1501W Section 004: Literature and Public Life (19638)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 08:00AM - 09:55AMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 227
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course explores how literary language builds the collective knowledge, shared reality, and civic relationships that make up public life. Literature's power in the public sphere goes far beyond the quiet, solitary experience of reading. We will investigate how telling stories, documenting events, imagining possibilities, communicating ideals, representing conflict, and even creating fictional characters contribute to public life. Through a wide variety of texts, we will reflect on the nature of public life and on how reading and writing build civic relationships and democratic potential. This course will also offer you two tracks for actively engaging in public life. A service-learning option will give you the experience of building literacy, developing skills in communication and public media, and strengthening roles in work and family. This recommended learning framework can engage your role as a citizen, broaden the impact of your education, and help you explore potential professional interests. Alternatively, an individually designed public project will prompt you to consider the links between literary/media culture, personal action, and public life, and to make your own intervention in these fields. To succeed in all areas of this class you must display active engagement, independent thinking and motivation, and organization.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?licht003+ENGL1501W+Fall2017
- Class Description:
This course explores how literary language builds the collective knowledge, shared reality, and civic relationships that make up public life. Literature's power in the public sphere goes far beyond the quiet, solitary experience of reading. We will investigate how telling stories, documenting events, imagining possibilities, communicating ideals, representing conflict, and even creating fictional characters contribute to public life. Through a wide variety of texts, we will reflect on the nature of public life and on how reading and writing build civic relationships and democratic potential. This course will also offer you two tracks for actively engaging in public life. A serviceÂ-learning option will give you the experience of building literacy, developing skills in communication and public media, and strengthening roles in work and family. This recommended learning framework can engage your role as a citizen, broaden the impact of your education, and help you explore potential professional interests. Alternatively, an individually designed public project will prompt you to consider the links between literary/media culture, personal action, and public life, and to make your own intervention in these fields. To succeed in all areas of this class you must display active engagement, independent thinking and motivation, and organization.
- Grading:
- 55% Special Projects
30% Reflection Papers
15% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
60% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities This course has a service-learning option that requests 20-25 hours over the semester. Non-service learning students will develop independent projects that request a similar time investment. - Workload:
- 20-100 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: Written work for this class takes the form of short informal essays and an oral history project. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19638/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2018 | ENGL 1501W Section 005: Literature and Public Life (19639)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 125B
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (26 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course explores how literary language builds the collective knowledge, shared reality, and civic relationships that make up public life. Literature's power in the public sphere goes far beyond the quiet, solitary experience of reading. We will investigate how telling stories, documenting events, imagining possibilities, communicating ideals, representing conflict, and even creating fictional characters contribute to public life. Through a wide variety of texts, we will reflect on the nature of public life and on how reading and writing build civic relationships and democratic potential. This course will also offer you two tracks for actively engaging in public life. A service-learning option will give you the experience of building literacy, developing skills in communication and public media, and strengthening roles in work and family. This recommended learning framework can engage your role as a citizen, broaden the impact of your education, and help you explore potential professional interests. Alternatively, an individually designed public project will prompt you to consider the links between literary/media culture, personal action, and public life, and to make your own intervention in these fields. To succeed in all areas of this class you must display active engagement, independent thinking and motivation, and organization.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?juber024+ENGL1501W+Fall2017
- Class Description:
- This section of Literature and Public Life will focus on how American writers have addressed social, cultural, and political themes in fiction from the mid-nineteenth century to today. How has the creative writing of this reputedly individualist nation imagined the relation of the self to communities and to society at large? We will investigate how American short stories and novels help us to conceive of ourselves as citizens, subjects, or individuals; allow us to think through questions of power and identity (such as race, gender, class, and sexuality); invite us to reflect on our relationship to nature and technology; document the effects of violence and oppression; address the role of art in life; and generally prompt us to ethical thought about our responsibilities to others. Our course will be organized as a historical survey to show how literature has affected and been affected by shifts in political and cultural consciousness. We will also explore how literary works can be better understood through their authors' biographies, their social and historical contexts, and their critical and scholarly reception.This writing-intensive course also requires you to respond to the themes of the course in formal and informal written work; and to encourage your own participation in public life, a community-engaged-learning option will give you the chance to collaborate with others on projects that serve the common good. By the end of this course, you will have become familiar with the basic formal characteristics of fiction; you will have had an introduction to the major artistic and historical currents of American literature; you will have developed writing skills in several genres (narration, exposition analysis, reflection, argumentation); and you will have had the opportunity to think through the relation between imaginative literature and everyday public life in America.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who wants to learn more about American literature, think about social and political questions through creative writing, build writing and communication skills, and/or participate in service learning to take an opportunity to get experience, help the community, and gain course credit outside the classroom.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19639/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 11 April 2018
Fall 2018 | ENGL 1501W Section 006: Literature and Public Life (20502)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 01:25PM - 03:20PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 162
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (21 of 23 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course explores how literary language builds the collective knowledge, shared reality, and civic relationships that make up public life. Literature's power in the public sphere goes far beyond the quiet, solitary experience of reading. We will investigate how telling stories, documenting events, imagining possibilities, communicating ideals, representing conflict, and even creating fictional characters contribute to public life. Through a wide variety of texts, we will reflect on the nature of public life and on how reading and writing build civic relationships and democratic potential. This course will also offer you two tracks for actively engaging in public life. A service-learning option will give you the experience of building literacy, developing skills in communication and public media, and strengthening roles in work and family. This recommended learning framework can engage your role as a citizen, broaden the impact of your education, and help you explore potential professional interests. Alternatively, an individually designed public project will prompt you to consider the links between literary/media culture, personal action, and public life, and to make your own intervention in these fields. To succeed in all areas of this class you must display active engagement, independent thinking and motivation, and organization.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?tandy004+ENGL1501W+Fall2017
- Class Description:
Meaning/practice of citizenship. Historical themes, contemporary issues in American public life: access of citizenship, tensions between social duties and individual freedoms, role of moral values in public life. Diverse literary materials. Optional service-learning component.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20502/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 April 2017
Fall 2018 | ENGL 1501W Section 007: Literature and Public Life (20940)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Community Engaged LearningUMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018Tue, Thu 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 315
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course explores how literary language builds the collective knowledge, shared reality, and civic relationships that make up public life. Literature's power in the public sphere goes far beyond the quiet, solitary experience of reading. We will investigate how telling stories, documenting events, imagining possibilities, communicating ideals, representing conflict, and even creating fictional characters contribute to public life. Through a wide variety of texts, we will reflect on the nature of public life and on how reading and writing build civic relationships and democratic potential. This course will also offer you two tracks for actively engaging in public life. A service-learning option will give you the experience of building literacy, developing skills in communication and public media, and strengthening roles in work and family. This recommended learning framework can engage your role as a citizen, broaden the impact of your education, and help you explore potential professional interests. Alternatively, an individually designed public project will prompt you to consider the links between literary/media culture, personal action, and public life, and to make your own intervention in these fields. To succeed in all areas of this class you must display active engagement, independent thinking and motivation, and organization.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?benne705+ENGL1501W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
Meaning/practice of citizenship. Historical themes, contemporary issues in American public life: access of citizenship, tensions between social duties and individual freedoms, role of moral values in public life. Diverse literary materials. Optional service-learning component.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20940/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 April 2017
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