Overview

Description

CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:

The study of selected works of British literature written from 1900 to 1945. May be organized by various critical issues or approaches. Students with credit for ENGL 415 may not take this course for further credit.

COURSE DETAILS:

THE MEMORY CRISIS 
Memory crisis has been defined as the disruption of “the very coherence of time and subjectivity” (Richard Terdiman, Present Past).  Part of modernity’s project has been to chronicle that disjointedness and, in so doing, to rearticulate time and subjectivity.  In the first few decades of the twentieth century, writers rethought memory by dramatizing intimate human relationships against sweeping social, technological, and political changes in Britain and its outposts.  In these works, perception of time is present as a thematic concern and also translates into form.  The altered sensibilities of time sought out expression in altered lyric, dramatic, and dialogic structures, and in so doing, inquired into the status of boundaries between self and other, here and there, man and woman, past and present.

COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:

Learning Objectives for English 340 

Students will learn to apply principles of rhetoric and critical analysis in response to selected readings. They will develop their writing skills through exploratory writing, academic argument, and critical analyses of literary texts.  

A student who successfully completes the course will have reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• Utilize a university-level writing process employing pre-writing and proposal strategies
• Plan, analyze, revise, and edit writing in response to instructor and/or peer feedback
• Generate, organize, and synthesize ideas
• Apply principles of unity, coherence, and emphasis in academic writing
• Observe the grammatical and stylistic conventions of scholarly prose in English
• Integrate textual evidence to support generalizations         
• Analyze, and interpret, and respond critically to literature through close reading
• Evaluate relevance, purpose, and effectiveness of different approaches to literature
• Use MLA documentation as appropriate with quotations and paraphrase
• Examine structure, logic, style, and themes in literary texts
• Respond critically to, analyze, and interpret texts
• Discuss and debate texts  

Creative thinking and problem-solving skills

• analyzing and drawing inferences from language
• evaluating relevance, purpose, and effectiveness of different approaches to literature

Oral skills

• asking questions in small and large groups
• listening actively and giving feedback
• participating in classroom discussions
• presenting thoughts to others and leading groupwork

Interpersonal and teamwork skills

• working productively in large and small groups
• offering, listening to, and responding appropriately to peer contributions

Personal management skills

• scheduling and completing reading and writing tasks to deadline

Writing skills

• producing written work that is clear, logically ordered, and focused
• producing unified and coherent paragraphs
• producing grammatically correct and effective sentences
• writing essays that use evidence to defend a thesis gathering information from sources and presenting that information
• effectively practicing editing strategies revising work in response to feedback

Reading & Information skills

• reading closely for information, argument, and rhetoric
• drawing inferences from various texts
• analyzing and responding critically to a variety of texts

Technological skills

• Navigating and using the resources of a LMS (online learning management system)
• Navigating and using the library resources

Grading

Materials

REQUIRED READING: