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Fall 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 001: Modern Fiction (20207)
- Instructor(s)
- Isabel Bethke (TA)Morgan Graham (TA)
- 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
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (222 of 225 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 Notes:
- Instructors provide materials and assignments that students access online at any time or within a given time frame (such as one week), rather than instructors and students meeting together as a class on a regular schedule. Exams are also all online.
- 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.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20207/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 002: Modern Fiction (20210)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Mon, Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AMUMTC, West BankPillsbury Hall 412
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (30 of 29 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:
"Fiction" has always had an equalizing potential at its heart. It is our most "modern" genre, and as such, I could have justified choosing novels from the early 1700s and short fiction from the 1800s. At its origins fiction was a disreputable beast, and as such had a freedom to push boundaries and misbehave in ways that its eminent and established older cousin, poetry, could not. Since the 19th century, short fiction and novels have maintained a nicely balanced space between experimentation and accessibility, while at the same time reminding us that stories are central to the human condition; every human culture tells stories. They define us: as individuals, as families, as societies, as humans.
A note on the texts: You must have the 3 novels in print format. Electronic texts are not acceptable for this course.
A disclaimer: You should be aware that some of the assigned readings for this course contain vulgar language and explicit (and frequently non-judgmental) depictions of violence, sex, and substance abuse, as well as other adult themes.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20210/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 July 2018
Fall 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 003: Modern Fiction (21156)
- 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 Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankPillsbury Hall 214
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (29 of 29 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/21156/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 004: Modern Fiction (21467)
- 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 Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Wed 05:30PM - 08:00PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 227
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (28 of 29 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:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
40% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
10% Class Participation - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
5% Film/Video
50% Discussion
20% Small Group Activities
5% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 90 Pages Reading Per Week
8 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
2 Paper(s)
1 Presentation(s)
Other Workload: This is primarily a discussion class. We'll read about five novels and eight short stories. There are two papers, four pages each, typed, double-spaced. We'll take a midterm and a final exam. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21467/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 September 2017
Fall 2021 | ENGL 1701 Section 005: Modern Fiction (34078)
- 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 Session09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 145
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (29 of 29 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/34078/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 1 March 2017
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