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Class number:
2713
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Title: Literature of Trauma&Resilienc |
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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 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 16 |
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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: T: 6:30PM-9:00PM, 115V - 106 |
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Instructor(s): Goldman, Francisco |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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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 post 1900. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course. |
Course Description:
In this course we explore a literature that responds to the traumatic events that we experience collectively and individually, from the nightmare worlds of the great plagues, contemporary and past; to the mass cruelties of war, slavery, the violence, repression and terror of “power” (wars, genocides, femicides, "disappearances"); and to the experience of devastating personal loss that so many experience in their lives. This is both a heroic and an intimate literature, that answers at times overwhelming horror with our seemingly most humble yet enduring tool, words; sometimes of pain and grief, shared with others; also, variously, of resistance, memory, refuge, resilience and imaginative transformation. |