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Course Info for ENGL - 496 - 01, Fall 2024
Class number: 3284 Title: Sem: What You Should Have Read Department: English
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 15 Current enrollment: 5 Available seats: 10
Start date: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 End date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: T: 1:30PM-4:10PM, 115V - 103 Instructor(s): Wheatley, Chloe
Prerequisite(s): This course is open to senior English majors only.
Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement
Course Description:
This is your final year as an English major. There are books and authors, that, once upon a time, you thought every English major should have read. You still haven't. One of this seminar's purposes is to let you to do so. One of its other purposes is to ask and answer the question: Why? Why did you think that every English major should have read this book? Why hadn't you? Why has or hasn't the text met your great expectations? We will also be discussing related issues such as canonicity and canon changes, the structure of the English major, and the reasons why you chose it. The students will generate (and debate) the reading list and syllabus. The instructor will generate the requirements.