ENGL 4920

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ENGL 4920
Honors Seminar II

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

The purpose of the Honors Seminar is to acquaint students with methods of study and research to help them write their senior Honors Essay. However, all interested students are welcome to enroll. The seminar will require a substantial essay that incorporates literary evidence and critical material effectively, and develops an argument. Topics and instructors vary each semester.

When Offered Spring.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: students in the Honors Program in English or related fields, or by permission of instructor.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Lyric Poetry and Language

  • 15497 ENGL 4920   SEM 101

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  • What are lyric poems made of? Feelings, ideas, sunsets, skylarks, red wheelbarrows? Or are poems made, essentially, of language¿words arrayed in lines, sentences, stanzas, patterns, rhythms, fixed forms and free variations? Do a poem¿s words match, maul, or mystify everyday words? This Honors Seminar ponders these questions through attentive reading, discussion, and writing about poems from the Renaissance to the present. Creative exercises, critical papers, work on research methods in preparation for the Honors essay. Anyone intrigued by these questions is welcome, including lovers of good fiction who feel less sure how to enjoy poetry.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Literature and Technology

  •  6137 ENGL 4920   SEM 102

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  • Since the industrial revolution, writers and readers have often thought of literature as the special preserve of the human, an antidote to an ever more technological world. But as technology is increasingly associated with electronic media, it is easier to imagine the relationship of literature to technology as a collaboration rather than an antagonism. One aim of this class will be to explore the character of literature in the age of electronic media. But we will also explore a deeper set of connections between literature and technology, reconsidering our assumptions about both terms to ask if literature is, and has always been, a technology.