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Fall 2019  |  ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (18262)

Instructor(s)
Emily Jones (Proxy)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Bell Museum Of Natural History 100
Enrollment Status:
Open (208 of 210 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
Class Description:

This section of EngL 1701 will work with as expansive a definition of "fiction" as possible, one that includes "literary" fiction, "experimental" fiction, "genre" fiction, and the "graphic novel" (for example). The list of authors we might study includes (but is not limited to) the following: Junot Diaz, Haruki Murakami, Lorrie Moore, Sandra Cisneros, John Edgar Wideman, Louise Erdrich, Roberto Bolaño, Lynda Barry, Tao Lin, Cormac McCarthy. Grades will be based on two long exams and a series of in-class writing assignments (i.e. "quizzes").

Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18262/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 March 2017

Fall 2019  |  ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (18265)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Appleby Hall 102
Enrollment Status:
Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
Class Description:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18265/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 March 2017

Fall 2019  |  ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (19314)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 215
Enrollment Status:
Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
Class Description:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19314/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 March 2017

Fall 2019  |  ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (19661)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Tue 06:00PM - 08:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Akerman Hall 227
Enrollment Status:
Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
Class Description:
The Oxford English Dictionary defines modern as "of or relating to the present or recent times," or "denoting the form of language that is currently used, as opposed to any earlier form." In the study of literature, however, the term modern also connotes the more technical literary movements of modernism and postmodernism. In this course we will honor both the OED definition and the more technical use of the term modern in the study of literature. To do so, students will read award-winning and highly acclaimed works of contemporary literature, that is, literature published in the last 5 years. Students will situate these works in relation to the history of modernist and postmodernist literatures. Students will also consider relevant social, political, and philosophical concepts and developments through the 20th and 21st centuries to the present.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19661/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 March 2017

Fall 2019  |  ENGL 1701 Section 005: Modern Fiction (33906)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2019 - 12/11/2019
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 215
Enrollment Status:
Closed (30 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
Class Description:
In Modern Fiction, we will study a selection of novels and short stories by some of the most compelling and original writers of our time. We will read work by contemporary authors and classic modernists whose stylistic innovations influenced a generation. Because literature is a continuum in which the present responds to the past, we'll note evolutions and developments in the genre over time. We will identify and analyze such elements of fiction as theme, genre, structure, form, language, and context.
Grading:
5% Reports/Papers
20% Special Projects
10% Quizzes
20% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
25% Problem Solving Other Grading Information: This is how I envisage it at the moment, but the balance my change a little between these five areas when I actually make up the syllabus.
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion I hope to have conversations between myself and the TAs, between the TAs, and between myself, the TAs and the students.
Workload:
70 Pages Reading Per Week
15 Pages Writing Per Term Other Workload: Probably written question and answer sessions
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33906/1199
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 September 2017

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