Fall 2021 - ENGL 362 E100

Transnational Literatures in English (4)

Writing in the New Yorker

Class Number: 6514

Delivery Method: In Person

Overview

  • Course Times + Location:

    Sep 8 – Dec 7, 2021: Wed, 4:30–8:20 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Exam Times + Location:

    Dec 9, 2021
    Thu, 11:59–11:59 p.m.
    Burnaby

  • Prerequisites:

    30 units or two 200 division English courses.

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

Study of primarily 20th- and 21st-century literatures and cultures in a comparative transnational framework. Focus may be hemispheric American literatures, the literatures of ‘the global south’, historical colonial and/or contemporary postcolonial/decolonial literatures, global environmental literature, and contemporary avant garde poetry and poetics. This course may be repeated for credit if a different topic is taught.

COURSE DETAILS:

Transnational Writing in the New Yorker

In this course, we will study a selection of short stories published in the New Yorker magazine. We will delve into the New Yorker archive to study a diverse range of contemporary stories and writers from North America and elsewhere in the world. As part of our study, we will listen to the New Yorker Fiction Podcast (in which a New Yorker fiction writer reads and discusses a work of another New Yorker fiction writer) and the Writer’s Voice Podcast (in which writers read their own recently published story). We will read and listen to stories that reflect on transnational identities and experiences of moving across borders, cultures, and languages. In addition to discussing specific histories and geographies as well as forms and themes relevant to the stories we read, we will consider why certain stories reemerge from the archive, and which new forms and voices of fiction the New Yorker has been publishing more recently. 

The course is run as a seminar and is discussion based. 

Grading

  • Seminar Participation 10%
  • Oral Presentation (~10 mins) 25%
  • Essay (~2000 words) 35%
  • Take Home Final Exam (~1500 words) 30%

NOTES:

Assignments subject to change.

Materials

MATERIALS + SUPPLIES:

You will need access to the internet for this course. 

 

 

REQUIRED READING:

The course Canvas site will include digitized print copies of New Yorker stories, as well as links to the audio recordings, at no cost. Students will be responsible for accessing the required readings and being prepared to talk about them in seminars.

We may study some of the following writers, but the list is subject to change: Vladimir Nabokov, Louise Erdich, Jhumpa Lahiri, Andrea Lee, Jamaica Kincaid, Huraki Murakami, Han Ong, Kristen Roupenian, Zadie Smith, Weike Wang, Bryan Washington, Charles Yu, Mavis Gallant, etc....


Department Undergraduate Notes:

IMPORTANT NOTE Re 300 and 400 level courses: 75% of spaces in 300 level English courses, and 100% of spaces in 400 level English courses, are reserved for declared English Major, Minor, Extended Minor, Joint Major, and Honours students only, until open enrollment begins.

For all On-Campus Courses, please note the following:
- To receive credit for the course, students must complete all requirements.
- Tutorials/Seminars WILL be held the first week of classes.
- When choosing your schedule, remember to check "Show lab/tutorial sections" to see all Lecture/Seminar/Tutorial times required.

Registrar Notes:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: YOUR WORK, YOUR SUCCESS

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Each student is responsible for his or her conduct as it affects the University community.  Academic dishonesty, in whatever form, is ultimately destructive of the values of the University. Furthermore, it is unfair and discouraging to the majority of students who pursue their studies honestly. Scholarly integrity is required of all members of the University. http://www.sfu.ca/policies/gazette/student/s10-01.html

TEACHING AT SFU IN FALL 2021

Teaching at SFU in fall 2021 will involve primarily in-person instruction, with approximately 70 to 80 per cent of classes in person/on campus, with safety plans in place.  Whether your course will be in-person or through remote methods will be clearly identified in the schedule of classes.  You will also know at enrollment whether remote course components will be “live” (synchronous) or at your own pace (asynchronous).

Enrolling in a course acknowledges that you are able to attend in whatever format is required.  You should not enroll in a course that is in-person if you are not able to return to campus, and should be aware that remote study may entail different modes of learning, interaction with your instructor, and ways of getting feedback on your work than may be the case for in-person classes.

Students with hidden or visible disabilities who may need class or exam accommodations, including in the context of remote learning, are advised to register with the SFU Centre for Accessible Learning (caladmin@sfu.ca or 778-782-3112) as early as possible in order to prepare for the fall 2021 term.