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UCCS Learning Objectives for Literature and Performing Arts (LPA)Upon completing these courses, students will be able to: (1) Produce oral and written assessments of literary and cultural texts and/or performances using the language and concepts of the discipline of literary studies. |
English 1002: Rhetoric and Composition 2• Section 101 -- 11:30-1:05 MTWR Tyler Farrell
English 2710: Introduction to Fiction• Section 101 -- MW 5:30-9:00 Kris Ratcliffe Thematic Title: COMPETING PARADIGMS: LITERARY PERIODS & ETHNIC CATEGORIESCourse Description: This summer we will read lots of short stories (by Dorothy Allison, James Baldwin, Charles Chestnutt, Ralph Ellison, Louise Erdrich, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Gish Jen, Cynthia Ozick, Edgar Allan Poe, Amy Tan, Helena Viramontes, Kurt Vonnegut, and others) and a couple novels (e.g., The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie and Beloved by Toni Morrison); in the process, we will question/evaluate two paradigms used to read U.S. literature. First, we will study U.S. literary periods of Romanticism, Realism/Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism not just as historical periods but as cultural threads that continue to inform contemporary U.S. literature and culture; second, we will examine muliti-ethnic categories of African American literature, American Indian literature, Chinese American literature, Latino/a Literature, (White) Suburban literature, “White Trash” literature, and (unmarked) literature not just as classifications of literary texts but as cultural threads that inform contemporary U.S. literature and culture. • Upon completing this course, you will be able to: (1) identity elements of narrative and explain their functions in fictional texts; (2) identify and critique two paradigms for studying literature—literary periods and multi-ethnicity; (3) identify values in U.S. fiction and evaluate the merits of these values today; (4) enhance your analytical reading, writing, and speaking abilities. Assignments: 2 position papers; 2 essays; 1 oral presentation; and one final exam. |
UPPER DIVISION English 4610: Individual Author: George Orwell• Section 101 -- 9:45-11:20 MTWR John Boly Hailed by many as the "conscience of a generation," English writer George Orwell (Eric Blair) seriously tests the theory that the pen is mightier than the sword. Journalist, literary critic, social commentator, novelist, fabulist, and dystopian, Orwell left few genres untouched, or unchanged, in his relentless drive to haul the modern era before the court of his scathing honesty. While other writers watched helplessly as journalismturned into propaganda,politics into theater, and war into an obscene sacrament, Orwell raised his lonely voice against official hypocrisy, sham, and deceit. The foe of class snobbery and intellectual pretense, he cast his lot with the forgotten, the bullied, and the expendable, whether it meant washing dishes in Paris or taking a sniper’s bullet through the neck in Spain. In this course we will survey the full range of Orwell’s varied writings, from his literary essays and war journals, to his novels, editorials, and political allegory. We end with his genre-bending dystopia, 1984, a grim prediction of the technocratic corporate state’s lock-step march into a totalitarian hell. Quizzes and homework, two 5-6 page essays, and a final exam. |
GRADUATE English 6500: Studies in 20th C British Literature *(NOTE: fulfills Amer & Brit 20th C requirements) •Section 101 -- TUTH 11:30-1:05 John Boly
Thematic Title:Studies in 20th C. British and American Literature: the Foundations of Anglo-American Modernism: Whitman, Eliot, Frost, Auden, Robert Lowell, and Plath. Description: Although literary critics frequently use categories such as "modernism," "anti-modernism," and "post-modernism," it is tempting to suspect that these terms may be a currency with little or no backing. While they may have a rough chronological basis, as in early vs. later twentieth century, they provide only preliminary descriptions. So this seminar will tracethe common denominators that convincingly, and coherently, link literary modernism to dominant historical, philosophical, and artistic trends from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Our readings: will gather together the incompatible aspirations of six figures crucial to understanding modern poetics: Whitman, Eliot, Frost, Auden, Robert Lowell, and Plath. Regular class presentations, two essays, and a final exam.
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UCCS Learning Objectives for Literature and Performing Arts (LPA)Upon completing these courses, students will be able to: (1) Produce oral and written assessments of literary and cultural texts and/or performances using the language and concepts of the discipline of literary studies. |
English 1: Rhetoric and Composition• Section 101 -- 8:00-9:30 MTWRF • Section 102 -- 9:45-11:20 MTWRF Eric Dunnum
English 2740: Intro to Film as Narrative• Section 101 -- Online John Su This online course will take place during the six weeks of Summer Session 2. Course description: In this course, we will explore a variety of genres of film, trying to discover what makes film a unique form of narrative. What can we learn from films that we can't learn from other narrative forms (books, songs, graphic novels, video games, etc.)? And what techniques do films use to move us to laugh or cry or love or hate? Required texts: Ed Sikov. Film Studies: an Introduction All students will be required to open a Netflix account for the duration of the course. You will need to have at least two films per week.
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UPPER DIVISION English 4800: Studies in Lit and Culture•Section 101 – MTWR 11:30 – 1:05 John Su Thematic title: The Graphic Novel: Love, Death, and the USA Course description: with the 1992 Pulitzer Prize special award going to Art Spiegelman's Maus: A Survivor's Tale, the graphic novel came of age. No longer simply entertainment for adolescent boys, the genre gained legitimacy as literature worthy of study and admiration. In the past two decades, the graphic novel has become a place not just for spandex-clad superheroes but also for explorations of life stories and struggles with some of the most important issues of our day including cultural identity, sexuality, consumerism, and the so-called “culture wars.” In this course, we will look at some of the most widely admired graphic novels published since the 1980s. Our focus will be on how graphic novels address significant debates in American society, and what cultural impact they might have. Possible readings: Maus: A Survivor's Tale, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, American-Born Chinese, The Dark Knight Returns, Blankets, Watchmen. Assignments: active class participation, reading quizzes, one short essay (3-5 pages) on an important cultural issue addressed in a graphic novel; one research essay (8-10 pages) on the cultural impact of the graphic novel. |
GRADUATE English 6600: Studies in American Liter: Beginnings to 1900: Sentiment, Sensation, and Nation•Section 101 – MTWR 9:45-11:20 Amy Blair Course description: Sentimentality, sentimentalism, sensation, and sympathy are all terms with profound resonance for American literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, and terms that provoked ambivalence and even revulsion from the self-identified practitioners of literary realism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—at least in public. In this class, we will work to excavate this seemingly self-evident cluster of terms with an eye to evaluating sentimentalities, plural—the cultural work, social purchase, and ideological impact of literature supposed to be sentimental at various moments in American (literary) history up to the beginning of the twentieth century. William Hill Brown, The Power of Sympathy (1789)
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