ENGL 3013 is also offered in Spring 2024
ENGL 3013 is also offered in Fall 2022
Spring 2024 | ENGL 3013 Section 001: The City in Literature (64949)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 11:15AM - 12:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 211
- Enrollment Status:
Open (29 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- City life has always inspired great writing, and The City in Literature provides students with an opportunity to read and respond to a selection of works that are, in one way or another, about cities. The primary emphasis of the course is on texts written in English during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, but some writing in translation and from other periods may also be assigned. Possible authors include but are not limited to the following: Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Kamau Brathwaite, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling Brown, Anna Burns, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Elena Ferrante, Allen Ginsberg, James Joyce, Juvenal, Federico Garcia Lorca, Amy Levy, Mina Loy, Claude McKay, Frank O'Hara, Derek Walcott, Walt Whitman, Patricia Williams, Virginia Woolf, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats.
- Class Description:
- This class provides students with an opportunity to read and respond to a selection of poems that are, in one way or another, about cities. The primary emphasis of the course is on poetry written in English during the 18th-21st centuries, but some poetry in translation and poetry from other periods is also included. Grades will be based on two interpretive papers, a final exam, and a series of in-class writing exercises (i.e. "quizzes"). Students who have questions about the content or conduct of the course are encouraged to contact the professor in advance.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64949/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 28 October 2013
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