09S: 2A 10S: Arrange Intended for students who have some familiarity with postcolonial literary texts, this course will combine the reading of postcolonial literature with the study and discussion of the major questions confronting the developing field of postcolonial studies. Issues may include: questions of language and definition; the culture and politics of nationalism and transnationalism, race and representation, ethnicity and identity; the local and the global; tradition and modernity; hybridity and authenticity; colonial history, decolonization and neocolonialism; the role and status of postcolonial studies in the academy. Authors may include: Achebe, Appiah, Bhabha, Chatterjee, Coetzee, Fanon, Gilroy, Gordimer, James, JanMohamed, Minh-ha, Mohanty, Ngugi, Radhakrishnan, Rushdie, Said, Spivak, Sunder Rajan. Prerequisite: English 58, Trinidad FSP, or permission of the instructor. Dist: LIT or INT; WCult: NW. Course Group IV. CA tags Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies, National Traditions and Countertraditions, Literary Theory and Criticism. Giri. SECTION III: SPECIAL TOPICS COURSES 60-67 Special Topics in English and American Literature
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08F: 2, 10A 09W: 10 09S: 2A In 08F at 2 (section 1 ), History of the Book. This course examines the book as a material and cultural object. We’ll consider various practical and theoretical models for understanding the book form and investigating the materials, technologies, institutions, and practices of its production, dissemination, and reception. We’ll focus primarily on the printed book in Western Europe and North America, but we’ll also spend time talking about the emergence of the codex (book), medieval manuscript books, twentieth and twenty-first century artist’s books and the challenges posed by digitality to the book form. The readings for the course will be balanced by frequent use of exemplars drawn from Rauner Library and practical experience in the Book Arts workshop setting type. Dist: LIT, WCult: W. Course Group IV. CA tags Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture. Halasz. In 08F at 10A (section 4), Introduction to Asian American Literature . This course studies the literature of some of the diverse groups that make up Asian America, from early immigrant to contemporary times. Among the questions we will address are: What are the sites of identification and contestation? What are the dominant tropes, styles, influences, and continuities? How are we to read this literature? Authors may include Frank Chin, Kip Fulbeck, David Henry Hwang, Garrett Hongo, Suji Kwok Kim, Maxine Hong Kingston, R. Zamora Linmark, Bharatee Mukherjee and Denise Uehara. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group III. CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Multicultural and Colonial Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture. Chin. In 09W at 10 (section 2), Native American Oral Traditional Literature (Identical to Native American Studies 34). Native American oral literatures constitute a little-known but rich and complex dimenÂsion of the American literary heritage. This course will examine the range of oral genres in several tribes. Since scholars from around the world are studying oral literatures as sources of information about the nature of human creativity, the course will involve examining major theoretical approaches to oral texts. Dist: LIT; WCult: NW. Course Group III. CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies . Goeman, Palmer, Runnels. In 09S at 2A (section 3), Profiles of the Dead . How do we tell a vivid story about a stranger who has crumbled into dust? During this seminar in literary nonfiction, each student will write a stylish, suspenseful narrative about a dead person. We will gear up to this final assignment with exercises, individual meetings and “boot camps” on historical research. Readings will include “The Lives They Lived” profiles from The New York Times Magazine , as well as excerpts from Gay Talese, Sarah Vowell and John Hope Franklin. WCult: W. CA tags Creative Writing, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture. Kennedy. 62. Gender/Literature/Culture
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08F: 10A 09W: 2 09S: 11 In 08F at 10A (section 1), Digital Game Studies . This course explores digital gaming. Reading academic and popular texts, we will situate digital gaming in relation to new media, visual, and literary studies. Class discussion will focus on outstanding problems in digital game studies: Where do the histories of technology and gaming meet? How do games change players and how do games shape culture? What about designers and programmers? In what ways are digital games playful and what aspects of them are expressive? What is the future of gaming? Of course this class will also study particular games, and, in addition to writing academic essays, students will invent individual and group projects in the game domain. Course Group IV. Evens. In 09W at 2 (section 3), Cosmopolitanism . Cosmopolitanism has been described as a way of thinking and working outside the boundaries of the local and the national, a way of living ethically “in a world of strangers.” In recent years, in the work of writers as diverse as Jacques Derrida and Anthony Appiah, “cosmopolitanism” has emerged as a way of pushing forward, or even transcending, some of the theoretical impasses of postmodernism and some of the political impasses of multiculturalism. This course will focus on the idea of cosmopolitanism as it has been used (and perhaps abused) in contemporary theory, philosophy, politics, and aesthetics. Dist: LIT. Course Group IV, CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies. Will. In 09S at 11 (section 2), National Allegory: Readings in Postcolonial Literature and Culture (Identical to Comparative Literature 49). This course explores current theories of nationalism and postnationalism and how these theories could be productively utilized in making sense of literary texts from the postcolonial world. Authors include Lu Xun from China; Raja Rao from India; Sembene Ousmane from Senegal; Ngugi wa Thiong’o from Kenya; and Chinua Achebe from Nigeria. Cultural theorists whose work will be discussed include Ernest Renan, Benedict Anderson, Homi Bhabha, Partha Chatterjee, Franz Fanon, and Frederic Jameson, among others. LIT: W; WCult: NW. Course Group IV, CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Genre-narrative, Multicultural and Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. Giri. 65. Literature Before the Mid-Seventeenth Century
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08F: 12 In 08F at 12 (section 1), Black Atlantic (Identical to African and African American Studies 63). “Black London” and “Black Atlantic” denote African and Slave presence in Europe and the Caribbean Islands. From Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko about a kidnapped African prince in the 17th century to John Stedman’s account of a slave rebellion in Surinam in the late 18th century, literature is rich with accounts of the British African population and the Caribbean middle passage. This course offers a new intimate view of these events and areas of conflict. Among other readings The Two Princes of Calabar is a history of two African princes who traveled through Europe in the 18th century, Equiano’s Interesting Narrative tells the life of a slave who bought his freedom and became a sailor. The course will also use the films Burn, with Marlon Brando, about a slave rebellion in the Caribbean, and Middle Passage , an unusual French view of the slave trade. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group II. CA tags National Traditions and Countertraditions, Multicultural and Colonial/Postcolonial Studies. Cosgrove. 67. Literature from the Start of the Twentieth Century to the Present
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08F: 10 09S: 12 In 08F at 10 (section 1), Romance in Medieval England . A consideration of the diverse and elusive genre we now call “romance,” which covers anything from chivalric adventures and love stories to quasi-hagiographic and pseudo-historical narratives, from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives. Readings may include selections from the earliest Arthurian narratives; Middle English and Anglo-Normal romances such as Tristan , Havelock , and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ; and traditional Celtic tales such as the Mabinogi . Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group I. CA tags Genre-narrative, Genders and Sexualities. Otter. In 09S at 12 (section 2), Love, Gender and Marriage in Shakespeare (Identical to Women’s and Gender Studies 48.3, pending faculty approval). In Shakespeare, issues so seemingly “domestic” as love, sexuality and family are problems of such colossal significance that they could be said to constitute the focal center of the canon itself. Hamlet and King Lear, for instance, are plays more truly “about” the politics of family than they are about the politics of kingdom. Focusing on seven plays, this course will interrogate the knotty issues of love, sexuality, and family. As part of the course, students will be required to participate in at least one scene production. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group I. CA tags Genre-drama, Genders and Sexualities. Boose. 71. Literature from the Mid-Seventeenth Century to the End of the Nineteenth Century
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08F: 3A, 10A 09W: 2 09S: 12 In 08F at 3A (section 2), Bob Dylan . In this course, we will do close, critical readings of certain Dylan lyrics spanning his entire career, also taking into consideration their social, historical, and biographical circumstances. Oral reports as well as a long final paper will be required. Note: some attention will be given to the performance aspect of Dylan’s songs, but we will not listen to them in class. All of the songs assigned and discussed will be available for your listening in the Paddock Music Library beforehand. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group III. CA tags Genre-poetry, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture. Renza . In 08F at 10A (section 3), Quarrelling with Yeats: Twentieth-century Irish Poetry in English . This course will explore the ways that four major twentieth-century Irish poets, Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and Thomas Kinsella, engage with W.B. Yeats in their work. The strategies by which they created their own poetic styles and thematic concerns will also be considered, and the course will conclude with a brief consideration of a later generation of Irish poets including Michael Hartnett, Eiléan Nà Chuilleanáin, Eavan Boland, and Paul Durcan. Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Course Group III. CA tags Genre-poetry, National Traditions and Countertraditions. Coleman. In 09S at 12 (section 4), Harlem Renaissance . (Identical to African and African American Studies 91). This class will examine the literature and social contexts of a period widely knows as the “Harlem Renaissance.” Part of our mission in the class will be to deconstruct some of the widely held presuppositions about that era, especially by interrogating questions of class, race, gender and sexuality as social constructs. Although this class will focus mainly on fiction writing, we will also consider some poetry and non-fiction prose as well. Dist: LIT. Course Group III. CA tags Genre-narrative, Genders and Sexualities, Cultural Studies and Popular Culture . Favor. 74. Open Topic
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09S: 2A In 09S at 2A (section 1), Form and Theory of Fiction . How do fiction writers think about fiction? What aesthetics, goals, tools, strategies, and theories have been explored and employed by fiction writers as they write their own works, read the works of other fiction writers, and postulate on the role of fiction in literature and among a general readership? Topics will include the ways that writers consider and work with point of view, dramaturgy, narrative sequence, character, voice, psychic distance, and authorial presence. In addition to examples of the novel, novella, and short story, readings will include theory and craft texts by such fiction writers as James, Poe, Forster, Calvino, Atwood, Gordimer, Ecco, Macauley, Lanning, Cixous, and others. Dist: LIT, CA tag Literary Theory and Criticism . Tudish. SECTION V: CREATIVE WRITING Introductory Creative Writing Course 80. Creative Writing
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09W, 09S, 10W, 10S: Arrange Continued work in the writing of poetry, focusing on the development of craft, image, and voice, as well as the process of revision. The class proceeds by means of group workÂshops on student writing, individual conferences with the instructor, and analysis of poems by contemporary writers. Prerequisite: English 80 and permission of the instructor. Please pick up the “How To Apply To English 81, 82 or 83” form from the English Department and answer all of the questions asked in a cover letter. Students should submit a five-eight page writing sample of their poetry to the administrative assistant of the English Department. Deadline for equal consideration for admittance is the last day of classes in the term preceding the course. Late applications will be accepted, but held until the add/drop period and reviewed if vacancies occur. Dist: ART. Huntington, Mathis. 82. Creative Writing: Fiction
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09W, 10W: Arrange This course offers students training in the writing of literary nonfiction. The class proÂceeds by means of group workshops on student writing, individual conferences with the instructor, and analysis of work by contemporary writers. Prerequisite: English 80 and permission of the instructor. Please pick up the “How To Apply To English 81, 82 or 83” form from the English Department and answer all of the questions asked in a cover letter. Students should submit a five-eight page writing sample of their non-fiction to the administrative assistant of the English Department. Deadline for equal consideration for admittance is the last day of classes in the term preceding the course. Late applications will be accepted, but held until the add/drop period and reviewed if vacancies occur. Dist: ART. Kennedy, Tudish. Advanced Creative Writing Courses 85. Senior Workshop in Poetry and Prose Fiction
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09W, 09S, 10W, 10S: Arrange A tutorial course to be designed by the student with the assistance of a member of the Creative Writing Faculty willing to supervise it. This course is intended for the purpose of producing a significant manuscript of fiction, nonfiction or poetry. It carries major credit only for creative writing majors. Creative Writing majors must request permission to take English 97 (one or two terms) during fall of senior year when they are enrolled in English 85. Decisions regarding admission to English 97 will not be made before fall term of senior year. Prerequisite: English 85 and permission of the Director of Creative Writing. 98. Honors Course in Creative Writing
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08F: D.F.S.P. (Glasgow, Trinidad) 09F: D.F.S.P. (Glasgow, Dublin) Major credit for this course is awarded to students who satisfactorily complete a course of study elected as part of one of the Department’s three Foreign Study Programs (FSPs). On the Glasgow FSP, this will be a course of study in literature at the University of Glasgow. On the Trinidad FSP, this will be a course of study in literature at the University of the West Indies. On the Dublin FSP, this will be a course of study in the English Department at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Of the three courses at TCD at least one must be in Irish literature. Students are also required to do an independent study project on some aspect of Irish literature or culture, culminating in a long essay; the grade for the independent study is factored into the grade for the Irish literature course. Glasgow and Dublin Dist: LIT; WCult: W. Trinidad Dist: LIT; WCult: NW . 91. English Study Abroad II
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08F: D.F.S.P. (Glasgow, Trinidad) 09F: D.F.S.P. (Glasgow, Dublin) One college credit (not major or minor credit) for this course is awarded to students who satisfactorily complete a course of study elected as part of one of the Department’s three Foreign Study Programs (FSPs). The purpose of English 92, when taken in Glasgow, is to enhance the experience of studying English and Scottish literature in a global, and more specifically British, context. The requirement may be fulfilled in one of three ways: by taking a course devoted to the study of European literature or the history of the English language; by taking a course in a field clearly relevant to the study of literature in English (e.g., history, art history, philosophy, media studies); by taking a course that immerses the student in some aspect of Scottish, British, or Celtic language, literature, culture or history. This course must be approved by the program director. On the Trinidad FSP, this will be a course of study in West Indian history and culture. On the Dublin FSP, this will be a course of study in the English Department at Trinity College Dublin (TCD). Of the three courses at TCD at least one must be in Irish literature. Students are also required to do an independent study project on some aspect of Irish literature or culture, culminating in a long essay; the grade for the independent study is factored into the grade for the Irish literature course. Glasgow Dist: Varies; Trinidad Dist: INT or SOC; Dublin Dist: LIT . SECTION VII: INDEPENDENT STUDY AND HONORS 96. Reading Course
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09W, 10W: 12; Laboratory This course is intended to take the mystery out of the technology that we have grown to depend on in our everyday lives. Both the principles behind and examples of devices utilizing electricity, solid and fluid properties, chemical effects, mechanical attributes and other topics will be discussed. In the associated lab project, students will dissect, analyze, (and possibly revive!) a broken gadget or appliance of their choosing. This course has no prerequisite, but enrollment is limited to 50 students. Dist: TLA. Gibson. 2. The Technology of Sailing
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09X: 2A With the exception of ideas and emotions, materials are the substance of civilization. From the “Iceman’s” copper ax to indium phosphide gallium arsenide semiconductor lasers, materials have always defined our world. We even name our epochs of time based on the dominant material of the age: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age and now Silicon Age. In addition to discussing the nature and processing of metals, polymers, ceramics, glass and electronic materials, this course will analyze the dramatic developments in civilization directly resulting from advances in such materials. The text Stephen Sass’s The Substance of Civilization will be used in the course. No Prerequisite. Dist: TAS . Lasky. 4. Technology of Cyberspace
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09S, 10S: 2A Technologies that will impact healthcare in the 21st century are explored, including biology, robotics, and information. Biotechnologies are explored that will be used for the treatment of diseases and the regeneration of missing organs and limbs. Robotics will be explored that will replace parts. This will include artificial organs, robots as replacement for human parts, the human genome project, gene therapy, biomaterials, genetic engineering, cloning, transplantation (auto, allo and xeno), limb regeneration, man-machine interfaces, robotics, prosthetic limbs, artificial organs and joints. This section will also cover ethical issues related to the above topics and issues regarding the FDA and the approval of new medical treatments. We will discuss going beyond normal with respect to the senses, muscles and creating wings. No Prerequisite. Dist: TAS . Rosen, Robbie. 6. Technology and Biosecurity
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08F, 09F: 10A This course will provide students with an introduction to the current and emerging technologies used in homeland security and the practitioners who use them. Topics covered in class include personal protective equipment, physical and cyber security systems, communications and information technologies, information assurance, WMD detection, robotics, simulation, exercise and training technologies. Students will gain a detailed understanding of the role technology plays in protecting the homeland. Dist: TAS. McGrath. 12. Design Thinking
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08F, 09F: 2A There is a revolution in technology that is occurring in health care. This new technology will dramatically change how health care is delivered in the future. This course will cover topics related to the virtual human created from bits. This will include virtual reality, augmented reality and datafusion, computer simulation, advanced 3D and 4D imaging techniques, the operating room of the future, minimally invasive surgery, space medicine, tele-operations, telemedicine and tele-surgery, internet 2 and cyberspace, artificial intelligence and intelligent agents applied to medicine, and the national library of medicine virtual human project. We will also discuss the FDA approval of computer simulators, robotic surgeons, and the ethics of robots doing surgery. In addition we will discuss the medical library of the future, teleconferencing and the use of interactive media in healthcare education. We will also discuss computerized patient records (CPR) and clinical information systems. Enrollment limited to 48. No prerequisite. Dist: TAS . Rosen, Robbie. 15. Undergraduate Investigations in Engineering
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08F: 9S 09S: 12 09F: Arrange 10S: 12 This course introduces concepts and techniques for creating computational solutions to problems in engineering and science. The essentials of computer programming are developed using the C and Matlab languages, with the goal of enabling the student to use the computer effectively in subsequent courses. Programming topics include problem decomposition, control structures, recursion, arrays and other data structures, file I/O, graphics, and code libraries. Applications will be drawn from numerical solution of ordinary differential equations, root finding, matrix operations, searching and sorting, simulation, and data analysis. Good programming style and computational efficiency are emphasized. Although no previous programming experience is assumed, a significant time commitment is required. Students planning to pursue the engineering sciences major are advised to take Engineering Sciences 20. Students considering the computer science major or majors modified with computer science should take Computer Science 5. Prerequisite: Mathematics 3 and prior or concurrent enrollment in Mathematics 8. Dist: TAS . Shepherd. 21. Introduction to Engineering
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09W: 9; Laboratory Tu,Th 09X: 10; Laboratory 10W: 9; Laboratory Tu,Th 10X: 10; Laboratory The student is introduced to the techniques of modeling and analyzing lumped, linear systems. The course will be concerned primarily with an elementary treatment of electrical, mechanical, fluid, and thermal systems. System input will be related to output through ordinary differential equations, which will be solved by analytical and numerical techniques. System concepts, such as time constant, natural frequency, and damping factor, are introduced. The course includes computer and laboratory exercises to enhance the students’ understanding of the principles of lumped systems. Prerequisite: Mathematics 13 Physics 14, and Engineering Sciences 20. Dist: TLA. Lynd, Ray (winter), Trembly (summer). 23. Distributed Systems and Fields
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09W, 09S, 10W, 10S: 10; Laboratory An introduction to the structure/property relationships that govern the mechanical, the thermal, and the electrical behavior of solids (ceramics, metals, and polymers). Topics include atomic, crystalline, and amorphous structures; x-ray diffraction; imperfections in crystals; phase diagrams; phase transformations; elastic and plastic deformation; free electron theory and band theory of solids; and electrical conduction in metals and semiconductors. The laboratory consists of an experimental project selected by the student and approved by the instructor. Prerequisite: Physics 14 and Chemistry 5. Dist: TLA. Frost (winter), Gibson (spring). 25. Introduction to Thermodynamics
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08F: 9 09S: 11 09F: 9 10S: 11; Laboratory The course treats the design of analog, lumped parameter systems for the regulation or control of a plant or process to meet specified criteria of stability, transient response, and frequency response. The basic theory of control system analysis and design is considered from a general point of view. Mathematical models for electrical, mechanical, chemical, and thermal systems are developed. Feedback control system design procedures are established using root-locus and frequency-response methods. Prerequisite: Engineering Sciences 22. Dist: TAS. Olfati-Saber (fall), Ray (spring). 27. Discrete and Probabilistic Systems
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08F: 11 09X: 12 09F: 11 10X: 12; Laboratory After a brief review of the concepts of rigid body statics, the field equations describing the static behavior of deformable elastic solids are developed. The concepts of stress and strain are introduced and utilized in the development. Exact and approximate solutions of the field equations are used in the study of common loading cases, including tension/compression, bending, torsion, pressure, and combinations of these. In the laboratory phase of the course, various methods of experimental solid mechanics are introduced. Some of these methods are used in a project in which the deformation and stress in an actual load system are determined and compared with theoretical predictions. The course includes several computer exercises designed to enhance the student’s understanding of the principles of solid mechanics. Prerequisite: Mathematics 13, Physics 13, and Engineering Sciences 20 or Computer Science 5. Dist: TAS. Phan (fall), Diamond (summer). 34. Fluid Dynamics
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