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Spring 2021  |  CSCL 1401W Section 001: Reading Literature: Theory and Practice (50648)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
How can we read/understand different ways that literature is meaningful? Emphasizes practice in reading a broad spectrum of world literature, literary theory.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1401W+Spring2021
Class Description:
CSCL 1401W Reading Literature: Theory and Practice 3 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Literature Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is Literature? How do definitions of it differ over time and across cultures? How does literature play a role in the ways people see themselves and others? How do our histories - personal and cultural - determine how we read it? CSCL 1401W examines such questions in relation to larger patterns of culture and power. You'll emerge from the course with a solid sense of the differences among various genres, and the cultural contexts from which they arise. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it will give you a good sense of the field of Comparative Literature as well as reading and writing skills useful in many other courses and disciplines. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion. *NOTE about CSCL 1401, Section 001, Spring 2021: In this section of the course, our readings will emphasize different notions of "relationality"--from concepts of "society" and "community," to "friendship," "love," and "family."
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50648/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
8 January 2021

Spring 2021  |  CSCL 1401W Section 002: Reading Literature: Theory and Practice (50649)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Mon, Wed, Fri 10:10AM - 11:00AM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
How can we read/understand different ways that literature is meaningful? Emphasizes practice in reading a broad spectrum of world literature, literary theory.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1401W+Spring2021
Class Description:
CSCL 1401W Reading Literature: Theory and Practice 3 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Literature Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive.
Description: Understanding the Theme of Struggle in Literature

If literature is the mimetic representation of life, that is a literary imitation of the world we live in, as thinkers of antiquity would posit, it naturally follows then that the mimesis would never be a smooth one. For human lives are an incessant series of turmoil and struggles, both abstract as well as materialist, and constituted by human efforts to fathom, pacify and make peace with those moments of anxiety and consternation. This course is designed with the intention of interpreting literary works which particularly focus on the theme of struggle. The term
‘struggle' is either generally imbued with a political connotation or comes in handy in conjuring the possibility of a radically changed future. Thus, we will explore together how can literature be read as a site of human struggle.
This course will encourage students to infer traces of inherent tension or concealed possibilities of reconciliation from the assigned texts. To that effect, this course can be treated as a springboard to mark struggle as something operating in various strata of modern society -
that of class, caste; of literary genres, i.e. novels, poems, dystopian fiction; and finally on a subliminal level - language, binary identities, experiences of marginality etc.

Who Should Take This Class?:
This is a beginner level course on Literature and Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies etc.
Learning Objectives:
1) to think critically as to how the world of literature explicates, subsumes (or does both) the idea of struggle within itself. We will also deal with some other pertinent issues such as how can literature facilitate a better understanding of human struggle, with each of its sub-genre treating the topic in a unique and different manner.

2) 2) to engage in a close-reading of texts, with the scaffolding provided by theoretical/critical tools such as Marxist criticism, Feminist and Queer studies, Subaltern theory etc. in order to fathom the extent to which struggle operates as a disruptive force in static conditions.

Exam Format:
Canvas
Class Format:
Completely Online, semi-synchronous
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50649/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 November 2020

Spring 2021  |  CSCL 1401W Section 003: Reading Literature: Theory and Practice (50650)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Tue, Thu 04:00PM - 05:15PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
How can we read/understand different ways that literature is meaningful? Emphasizes practice in reading a broad spectrum of world literature, literary theory.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1401W+Spring2021
Class Description:
CSCL 1401W Reading Literature: Theory and Practice 3 credits, meets Lib Ed req of Literature Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive Instructor: STAFF Description: What is Literature? How do definitions of it differ over time and across cultures? How does literature play a role in the ways people see themselves and others? How do our histories - personal and cultural - determine how we read it? CSCL 1401W examines such questions in relation to larger patterns of culture and power. You'll emerge from the course with a solid sense of the differences among various genres, and the cultural contexts from which they arise - between an epic poem emerging from a Greek city state and a novel by a German civil servant, say. Small classes emphasize close reading, discussion, and practice in critical writing. An introductory course in every sense, it will give you a good sense of the field of Comparative Literature as well as reading and writing skills useful in many other courses and disciplines. Class Time: 40% lecture, 60% discussion
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50650/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
12 November 2020

Spring 2021  |  CSCL 1401W Section 004: Reading Literature: Theory and Practice (50651)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Wed 06:20PM - 08:50PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
How can we read/understand different ways that literature is meaningful? Emphasizes practice in reading a broad spectrum of world literature, literary theory.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1401W+Spring2021
Class Description:
CSCL 1401W Reading Literature: Theory and Practice, meets Lib Ed req of Literature Core; meets Lib Ed req of Writing Intensive

What is the form of modern life? This class examines the rapid transformations of cultural life, thought, and literary form in the early decades of the twentieth century, using Vienna, London, and Harlem as case studies. In addition to three short novels, we will read philosophical treatises, psychoanalytic lectures, works of art criticism, personal correspondences, and will also examine paintings and orchestral works. We will discuss matters of race, identity, sexuality, politics, and economics.

Class Format:
The class will meet semi-synchronously. Prepare to meet every Wednesday evening on Zoom for 90 minutes. We will make up for the shorter class time with asynchronous discussions and activities on Canvas each week.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50651/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
18 November 2020

Spring 2021  |  CSCL 1401W Section 005: Reading Literature: Theory and Practice (51077)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Mode
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
Off Campus
UMN REMOTE
Enrollment Status:
Open (23 of 25 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
How can we read/understand different ways that literature is meaningful? Emphasizes practice in reading a broad spectrum of world literature, literary theory.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL1401W+Spring2021
Class Description:

This course will serve as an "introduction," "primer," or otherwise "crash course" in the study of literature (along with the varied forms of its reception and criticism). This course's "goal" is thus to instill confidence in speaking broadly about literary studies. To learn about literature "in comparison" will challenge many of the assumptions and attachments that have underpinned your experiences prior to this point. World literature - a deceptively simple term - serves as the binding subtitle to this course. Together, we will explore the thematic, formal, and rhetorical methods used throughout a curated selection of literature with an eye to the ways in which literature both traditionally reflects the socio-economic conditions of its producers, and why the study of such a "thing" as literature might be authorized. For my part, I suggest that a universal and collective vision of humanity is apparent in all literary expressions, and its study grants us the rare opportunity to immerse ourselves fully in the past.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51077/1213
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
18 December 2020

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