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Class number:
2466
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Title: Dream Vision and Romance |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 17 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, 115V - 106 |
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Instructor(s): Staples, James |
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Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: C- or better in English 260 or ENGL 160. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1700. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the pre-1800 requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course. |
Course Description:
A study of two major medieval genres as they are developed in the works of Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain-poet, and Malory. The course will explore the structural and stylistic as well as the political, social, and psychological issues raised by these genres and the individual authors' treatments of them. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1700. This course is research intensive. |