ENGLISH 154J: Prep Schools, Frat Houses, and Hogwarts: The Campus in 20th & 21st Century Literature
This course examines the representation of campus life across a variety of media and genres: from Willa Cather¿s
The Professor¿s House (1925) to Todd Phillips¿s
Old School (2003) to Vampire Weekend¿s ¿Campus¿ (2008) and beyond. By studying the evolution of the campus over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we will explore how artists dealt with the school as an increasingly unavoidable part of modern experience. Why do artists rebel so vehemently against the school system? Why do schools like teaching novels that are all about how terrible schools are? What can and can¿t we learn in class?
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
Instructors:
Frank, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 157E: Murder: A Course on Narrative Representation
While murder often kicks off light, popular fictions like
Sherlock or
Poirot, it is also often central to more philosophical representations of the darkest, most antisocial extremes of the human psyche. In this course, we consider this intriguing range of murder¿s narrative function and meaning. We study how representational strategies and genre conventions inform audience expectations and responses; analyze how plot and style interact; and discuss the slippery lines between nonfiction, true crime, and fiction. By the end of the course, students should have a working understanding of key concepts from narratology, genre studies, and reader response criticism.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Walker, M. (PI)
ENGLISH 157G: Gaming and Literature: Exploring Connections between Interactive Media and Literary Analysis
Whether struggling as dragon born or raiding ancient tombs, character and story in video games are crucial to an immersive experience. Whether by design or imagination, we vest ourselves in the challenges and puzzles in stories of alien attack, myth and magic, and constructed worlds. Literature and gaming are converging, transforming pixels into rich environments where gamers spend months or years. This course connects characteristics of games and select literary works, guiding analyses of story-driven, active game systems. Students explore story development and critical processes for the synthesis of various game types, and explore social issues connecting games and society.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Barzso, T. (PI)
ENGLISH 160: Poetry and Poetics
Introduction to the reading of poetry, with emphasis on how the sense of poems is shaped through diction, imagery, and technical elements of verse.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors:
Boland, E. (PI)
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Davoudian, A. (PI)
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Friedman, N. (PI)
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Instructors:
Boland, E. (PI)
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Davoudian, A. (PI)
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Friedman, N. (PI)
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Gigante, D. (PI)
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Jarvis, C. (PI)
ENGLISH 161: Narrative and Narrative Theory
An introduction to stories and storytelling--that is, to narrative. What is narrative? When is narrative fictional and when non-fictional? How is it done, word by word, sentence by sentence? Must it be in prose? Can it be in pictures? How has storytelling changed over time? Focus on various forms, genres, structures, and characteristics of narrative.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 162W: Writing Intensive Seminar in English (WISE)
Small literature-based, writing-intensive seminars taught by advanced graduate students in the English Ph.D. program. The goal will be to produce a high-quality final research paper. Courses will be oriented around a single text or a small group of texts in conversation with a larger spectrum of scholarship and knowledge in literary criticism and theory, film, painting, or material culture. The small format will allow undergraduates to receive detailed commentary and one-on-one feedback on their writing.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Atura Bushnell, A. (PI)
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Beckman, J. (PI)
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Eccles, A. (PI)
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Instructors:
Atura Bushnell, A. (PI)
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Beckman, J. (PI)
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Eccles, A. (PI)
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Frost, A. (PI)
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Kim, M. (PI)
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Nathan, J. (PI)
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Walser, H. (PI)
ENGLISH 163D: Shakespeare: The Ethical Challenge (TAPS 163D)
Was the eighteenth century right in proclaiming Shakespeare to be the greatest moral philosopher? What are the ethical challenges Shakespeare's major plays still pose for us? Can we divorce ethical decisions from the contingencies of experience? We will ask a series of normative ethical questions (to do with pleasure, power, old age, self-sacrifice, and truth telling) and attempt to answer them in relation to the dramatic situation of Shakespeare's characters on the one hand and our own cultural situation on the other. The ethical challenge of Shakespearean drama will be set against selected readings in ethical theory.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-EthicReas, WAY-A-II, WAY-ER
Instructors:
Lupic, I. (PI)
ENGLISH 164: Senior Seminar
Small-class format focused on the close reading of literary texts and analysis of literary criticism. This class answers the questions: How do literary critics do what they do? What styles and gambits make criticism vibrant and powerful? Goal is to examine how one goes about writing a lucid, intelligent, and convincing piece of literary criticism based on original research.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 164C: Senior Capstone Seminar
Do you want to reflect critically on your time in the English Major? Do you want to design your own Senior Seminar project? This course is writing intensive, and involves the proposal, cultivation, and production of a 15-page student-designed research paper that consolidates the arc of a compelling literary critical interest. Substitutes for the Senior Seminar. Open to all English seniors who wish to write a long critical essay (we cannot at this time accept creative writing capstones).
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Staveley, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 168: Imagining the Oceans (COMPLIT 168, FRENCH 168)
How has Western culture constructed the world's oceans since the beginning of global ocean exploration? How have imaginative visions of the ocean been shaped by marine science, technology, exploration, commerce and leisure? Authors read might include Cook, Equiano, and Steinbeck; Defoe, Verne, Stevenson, Conrad, Woolf and Hemingway; Coleridge, Baudelaire, Moore, Bishop and Walcott. Films by Painlevé and Bigelow. Seminar co-ordinated with a spring 2015 Cantor Arts Center public exhibition. Visits to Cantor; other possible field trips include Hopkins Marine Station and SF Maritime Historical Park.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Cohen, M. (PI)
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Yang, R. (TA)
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