Fall 2024  |  ENGL 1913W Section 001: I Don't Want to Grow Up--Coming of Age in Fiction (33729)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Freshman Seminar
Enrollment Requirements:
Freshman and FRFY
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2024 - 12/11/2024
Wed 01:00PM - 03:30PM
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 312
Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 18 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Adulting is stressful. One day you're turning somersaults on the lawn, and the next day you're dealing with job interviews and the interest on your student loans. In this discussion-driven literature class, we'll read novels and short stories that depict the shift from the teen years to adulthood in a wide range of contexts, from Jane Austen's 19th-century England to Tim O'Brien's Vietnam War experience and from the graphic novel to speculative fiction. During the course of the seminar, you'll write a letter to your former (or future) self, meet a renowned local author and ask them questions about their work, dig through a literary archive, and experiment with adopting the persona of a fictional character. This seminar fulfills a Writing Intensive requirement, which means we'll explore our own and others' stories of coming-of-age while also spending some quality time on literary exercises and experiments.
Class Description:
In this literature and discussion seminar, we will read novels and short stories that portray the often uneasy shift from the teen years to adulthood in a wide range of books, from Jane Austen to the American western to narratives of soldiering and war to graphic/comic novels to dystopian fiction. Students will debate, analyze, and occasionally *dramatize* the coming-of-age experiences about which we will read. What does adulthood consist of? In what ways have the definitions of youth and maturity changed over time, depending on historical and cultural context? This is a "Writing Intensive" course: Students will produce imaginative, coherent, thought-provoking and grammatically correct essays; revision will be an integral part of the class.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33729/1249
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 April 2017

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