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Summer
One 2005
Note: There are no graduate courses in Summer Two.
English 528: Seminar in Creative Writing
Professor Barbara Henning
Saturdays
12:00 pm to 4:30 pm
In this seminar in creative writing we will read and workshop
both short stories as well as poetry. In the process we should
learn about the borderline between the genres. Students will
be expected to respond to published stories and poems as well
as work by other students. During the workshop, there will
also be exercises, free-writing and experiments, focusing
on style and generating new material. I will try to shape
the course around the interests of the particular students
enrolled. Please contact me when you register so we can talk
for a few minutes.
English 671: Feminist Theory and Literary Applications
Professor Carol Allen
Mondays & Wednesday
3:00 pm to 5:15 pm
This course introduces various theoretical frameworks that
feminist scholars have devised in order to explain the conditions
of women with the hopes that this understanding will lead
to enlightenment and more pronounced freedom for women and,
by extension, men. There is no unifying agreement on either
what the conditions were that led to global, gender inequalities
or how to fix the problem once the root causes have been identified.
Thus we will spend the semester exploring the major schools
of thought on the condition of women. Moving from theory to
experience and back, each student is challenged to first comprehend
both the general ideas and broader implications of each approach
and then formulate her or his personal views on these ideas.
Required texts may include: Feminist Frameworks, by
Jaggar and Rothenberg; Feminist Thought, by Rosemarie
Tong; Hawthorne's The Scarlett Letter; Morrison's Sula;
poetry by Emily Dickenson; Conde's Tituba; an Esmeralda
Santiago's American Dreams.
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