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ENGL 3025 is also offered in Spring 2023
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Spring 2023 | ENGL 3025 Section 001: The End of the World in Literature and History (53944)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
RELS 3627 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Rapson Hall 45
- Enrollment Status:
Open (50 of 65 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- For at least two and a half millennia, prophets, politicians, and poets have crafted terrifying accounts about the end of the world. This comparatist seminar examines the way different cultures have imagined a final apocalypse with particular attention to the political and social consequences of their visions. Students will read texts that focus on pandemic, extraterrestrial attack, nuclear holocaust, prophecy, cybernetic revolt, divine judgment, resource depletion, meteoric impact, or one of the many other ways in which humans write of their demise. They will use literary analysis to explore the many historical and contemporary wastelands they will encounter. They will write short papers and give in-class presentations on different kinds of apocalypse.
- Class Description:
- This course fulfills the Historical Perspectives Core Liberal Education requirement!
Writers have long produced accounts and predictions of the end of the world, expressing within them religious, social, political, and psychological factors and forces that bear upon human experience on earth. Over the course of millennia, they have imagined the end times in myriad ways, among them divine judgment, pandemic, nuclear war, alien invasion, rebellious artificial intelligence, environmental collapse, and resource depletion. Students in this course will study such accounts spanning historical and cultural contexts, from early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts to twentieth century literature and film. They will write short analytical papers and produce in-class presentations on different historical events or ideas about apocalypse.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53944/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 27 October 2016
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