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Spring 2025 | ENGL 3001W Section 001: Textual Analysis: Methods (54326)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Mon, Wed 11:15AM - 01:10PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Notes:
- All seats are reserved for students with declared English major or minor programs, or with approved IDIM or BIS programs with an English area.
- Class Description:
- The word text derives from ancient terms for weaving, while the word analysis is linked to loosening and release. Any literary or popular text offers the reader a rich fabric of meanings to trace and set loose. This course will help deepen your understanding of what constitutes different kinds of texts (how stories, poems, and novels are woven) while allowing you to explore and practice methods of analysis that are important today. Although this class is centered on methods and critical practices, our core texts (including historical classics and contemporary publications) will be united by a shared theme of wildness versus civilization. This thematic focus will let us explore how literature addresses a theme that is as old as human culture itself through radically different historical moments and textual forms. Over the course of the semester you will also develop a project to explore your own interests in a particular author, genre, theme, style, or period. Assignments will include informal exercises, an annotated bibliography, drafting and polishing essays, and a short panel-style presentation.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54326/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
Spring 2025 | ENGL 3001W Section 002: Textual Analysis: Methods (64802)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- English major or minor or BIS/IDIM-English
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Tue, Thu 12:20PM - 02:15PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed for English majors and minors, as well any students interested in and attracted to literature and reading. Our concern will be to develop the intellectual foundations to move past our base, instinctive reactions to literature to deeper modes of reading, interpretation, and written analysis/argument. Our goal will be to develop the skills of slow-motion, skeptical reading: to savor the crafting of literary form and to explore how literary rhetoric engages our intellect and emotions; to read not simply for superficial content, but to engage and question the multi-faceted operation of literary texts. In terms of foundational writing skills for the English major, we will work on the development of compelling written literary arguments by breaking the writing process down into various phases. We will work with the basics of argumentation: developing a strong, coherent thesis, drafting, the logic of argument, revision, proper citation and effective use of primary and secondary sources, and more. prereq: [English major or minor or approved BIS or IDIM program with English area]
- Class Description:
The emphasis of this class will be on close reading. However, since it is titled "textual interpretation," we will also investigate what it might mean to read textually. As a concept, "text" emerged to challenge the notion of the (original) "work" of literature written by an author; and "reading" as an alternative to "interpretation." So we will necessarily interrogate these terms: literature, work, author, reading, interpretation and text, as well as others critical to the task of reading. Our discussions, as the syllabus should suggest, will be somewhat theoretical. But the primary focus of the class will be on reading fiction.
- Who Should Take This Class?:
- Anyone who has ever been accused of reading into something too much. Anyone who has frantically called up Sparknotes in response to an essay question about symbolism, motif, or theme. Anyone who has puzzled in front of a piece of modern art, desperately seeking a placard or tour guide to give you a clue. Anyone who often finds themselves drawn to the subtles or connections in art of literature that others overlook. Anyone interested!
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/64802/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2017
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