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AP/EN 4061 3.0 Environmental Justice Literature

This course complicates the canon of nature writing by examining ways in which environmental justice writing consistently links the exploitation of the environment with human exploitation. Attention is also paid to how environmental degradation unequally effects poor people and ethnic minorities.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4061 3.00 was AS/EN 4451 3.00

AP/EN 4060 6.0 American Captivity Narratives

The course explores the figure of captivity in 19th-century American literature. The prime concern is how American authors theorize agency in relation to sexuality and gender, cultural and ethnic difference, race, class, and history.Course credit exclusion: AP/EN 4060 6.00 (prior to Fall 2012). PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 3311 6.00.

AP/EN 4060 3.0 American Captivity Narratives

The course explores the figure of captivity in 19th-century American literature. The prime concern is how American authors theorize agency in relation to sexuality and gender, cultural and ethnic difference, race, class, and history.Course credit exclusion: AP/EN 4060 6.00 (prior to Fall 2012). PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 3311 6.00.

AP/EN 4050 6.0 The Arts of Memory

Thematically organized around studies in memory, this course traverses literature, philosophy, psychology and the visual arts, from Plato to the digital age, in an effort to understand the interrelatedness of all the arts with respect to one of the most complicated domains of human thought and practice. Course credit exclusions: AP/COMN 4780 6.00. Previously offered […]

AP/EN 4042 3.0 Narratology

Through selected texts, this course examines theories of narratology. Please consult the departmental supplemental calendar for a detailed course description.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4100M 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), AS/EN 4101 3.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4042 3.00 (Narratology) was AS/EN 4101 3.00 (Studies in Literary […]

AP/EN 4041 6.0 History & Description of English Lang.

The development of the English language to the present time, and a description of Modern English. Course credit exclusions: GL/EN 4606 6.00, GL/LIN 4606 6.00, AP/EN 4041 3.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4041 6.00 was AS/EN 4110 6.00

AP/EN 4020 6.0 Literature and Philosophy

This course examines the moral grounds of the philosophical description of art in Kant, Hume, Smith, and Rorty. It then turns to contributions the novel has made to the practice of moral philosophy. Novelists include Richardson, James, and Nabokov.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4100 3.00, AS/EN 4100C 3.00 […]

AP/EN 4020 3.0 Literature and Philosophy

This course examines the moral grounds of the philosophical description of art in Kant, Hume, Smith, and Rorty. It then turns to contributions the novel has made to the practice of moral philosophy. Novelists include Richardson, James, and Nabokov.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4100 3.00, AS/EN 4100C 3.00 […]

AP/EN 4011 3.0 Queer Theory

What is queer? Is queer always contaminated by sexuality? How is ""queer"" different from ""gay""/""lesbian""? This course will consider the historical conditions for the emergence of queer theory and the intellectual/political/cultural uses of and stakes in queer theory.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusion: AS/EN 4480 3.00.

AP/EN 4010 3.0 Feminist Theory

Through selected texts, this course examines the impact of French feminist theory on Anglophone feminist theory. Please consult the departmental supplemental calendar for a detailed course description.Course credit exclusions: None. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4100G 3.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004). AS/EN 4101 3.00. PRIOR TO FALL 2009: AP/EN 4010 3.00 (Feminist […]