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Fall 2018  |  ENGL 3960W Section 001: Capstone Seminar in English (31893)

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 Learning
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon, Wed 05:30PM - 07:25PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 202
Enrollment Status:
Open (9 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/?mills175+ENGL3960W+Fall2018
Class Description:
JAMES BALDWIN'S AMERICA: In our current historical moment, when social justice causes have become manifest in a range of new mass movements, and white supremacy has received implicit and explicit political backing, the writings of James Baldwin have attained a new level of intellectual appeal and currency. Baldwin's work has inspired multiple recent analyses of the current state of race relations in America - Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me (2015), Jesmyn Ward's The Fire This Time (2016), Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro (2016) - and his insights into race, gender, sexuality, and political power in America seem to many to speak directly to current concerns. In this course, we'll examine Baldwin's major works of non-fiction prose and fiction to trace the ways they intervene in social, cultural, and political debates of the postwar and civil rights eras, as well as to evaluate how they might offer resources for thinking the political debates of our present. Among other lines of inquiry, we'll work to identify Baldwin's major intellectual and artistic priorities and how those priorities shifted from the 1950s through the 1970s; we'll consider why some Baldwin works have remained popular with readers, critics, and commentators (Notes of a Native Son, The Fire Next Time, Go Tell it on the Mountain, Another Country) while others have been understudied or overlooked (No Name in the Street, If Beale Street Could Talk, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone); and we'll look at how various sociopolitical and intellectual programs - Cold War liberalism, literary modernism, civil rights, Black Power, queer theory - have attempted to "claim" Baldwin over the years.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31893/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
21 March 2018

Fall 2018  |  ENGL 3960W Section 002: Capstone Seminar in English (31894)

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 Learning
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 10:10AM - 12:05PM
UMTC, East Bank
Vincent Hall 313
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/?mh+ENGL3960W+Fall2018
Class Description:
Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31894/1189

Fall 2018  |  ENGL 3960W Section 003: Capstone Seminar in English (31895)

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 Learning
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 04:25PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 340
Enrollment Status:
Open (14 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+Fall2018
Class Description:
Horror: British Gothic Fiction How can words on a page make us shudder? And what might be the ethical, emotional, and epistemological benefits of finding ourselves - or allowing ourselves to come into - such a state of heightened negative feeling? This seminar explores answers to these questions through readings of British Gothic fiction from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otronto through James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner. We will examine major themes and techniques of the genre as well as its relation to wider cultural developments of the Romantic period. We will focus on such issues as the role of emotions in our perceptions and reactions, and the relation between emotion and reason; the rights and obligations of individuals within their families and their political communities; gender differences; and the development of moral and psychological concepts such as guilt, shame, and the unconscious. This seminar is also designed to help you develop an independent research project that culminates in a seminar paper of 13-17 pages. For this purpose we will practice methods of research and writing, and you will complete a number of exercises designed to support the development of your project.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/31895/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
19 March 2018

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