Spring 2007 Curriculum
Note: The underlined course title indicates the Department/Program that is the Parent of the course.
Translation Workshops:
Specialized workshops training students to translate usually from foreign languages to English. Scheduled instruction in French, Spanish and Portuguese. Rosemary Arrojo, Marilyn Gaddis Rose. See descriptions below:
TRIP 572/472/COLI 572/472/FREN 572/LACS 480A /PIC 612B/ SPAN 582
Literary Workshop:
This is a creative writing workshop in which students meet weekly with their instructor and work on texts of their choice. Texts should be of moderate length, e.g. a novelette, a long one-act play, a poem cycle. Students are strongly encouraged to look for materials that have not yet been translated and to seek formal permission from publishers.
Arrojo, TR 11:40-1:05
TRIP 573/473/COLI 573/473/FREN 573/LACS 480B/PIC 612C/SPAN 583
Non-Literary Workshop:
This workshop develops a routine of translation practice organized by language pairs. Students are expected to work at a professional pace, with an average of 1,000 words per week.
Arrojo, TR 11:40-1:05
Other required activities: Both literary and non-literary translators are required to participate in three 1 hour seminars conducted by R. Arrojo (times and dates TBA), in which they will be expected to discuss reading assignments in connection with their practical experience.Both literary and non-literary translators will be required to briefly discuss a chosen topic in our final meeting.
TRIP 580B/COLI580T POSTCOLONIAL TRANSLATION STUDIES
This seminar will examine contemporary notions of translation as transformation, and their consequences for an ethics of interpretation. We will concentrate on theoretical statements associated with postcolonial thought with an emphasis on Latin American approaches.
Arrojo, W 1:10-4:10
TRIP 580C/461/COLI 580C, LACS 580C, LING 449B, PIC 612D
Introduction To Computer-Assisted Translation Tools:
Practical introduction to computer-assisted translation and terminology management tools. This course will present a variety of computer tools for translators, including both Web-based applications and software specially designed for translation and terminology management. There will be an initial presentation of basic concepts in terminology management and documentation, as well as an introduction to translation project management. The course is not language-specific; the skills will be useful for various disciplines.
Arrojo, M 1:10-4:00
TRIP 707 FOREIGN READING PROFICIENCY
Course designed to help graduate students improve their use of a foreign language as a research tool. Targets acquisition of reading knowledge by going directly to actual texts. Available to undergraduates through Comparative Literature. Scheduled instruction in French and Spanish.
Arrojo, Gaddis-Rose, W 1:00-2:30
Coordinated Curriculum:
COLI 517L MEMORY, LANGUAGE, FASCISM
This course will examine approaches of postwar poetics in Europe after World War II. The major focus is on the work of Ingeborg Bachmann, who after finishing her dissertation on Heidegger turned to literature and became one of postwar Europe 's most innovative writers. Her poems and prose paradigmatically explore the possibility of literature as an ethical-aesthetical force after catastrophe and specifically the Holocaust. For Bachmann fascism is an experience of language, and language an experience of fascism. The search for a new language in her work, therefore, is an unending struggle with the violence of the everyday, forgetting, genocide, colonial wars, and the murder of women. Discussing her work in context of larger debates on the limits of language, poetry and politics, memory and resistance, crime and fiction we will include readings of Wittgenstein, Adorno, Benjamin, Arendt, Celan and Agamben.
Brinker-Gabler, T 1:15-4:15
COLI 517S/AFST 373 THE AFRICAN NOVEL
Explores the development of the novel in Africa , both historically and thematically. On one hand, traces formal growth of genre, beginning with its emergence from oral narrative traditions of the continent, through its attachment to certain European trends and techniques, to its present achievement in blending various traditions (African and non-African) in articulation of key problems in contemporary African socio-political life. On the other hand, examines some of the key concerns that have engaged one generation of writers after another: e.g., confrontation with European presence, critique of post-colonial leadership, apartheid and the place of women in African society.
Okpewho, TR 4:25-5:50
COLI 535A/AAAS480P THE QUESTION OF THE ORIENT
Where or what exactly is the Orient? What are its geographic, cultural, political and imaginative boundaries? What different definitions, forms, and symbols have the Orient and its related fields ( e.g., "the East," " Asia ," "Asian America") embodied in the past and what are its manifestations today? Using inter- and multidisciplinary sources and methods of inquiry, this graduate seminar explores the "question of the Orient," including a close scrutiny of its possible origins, visages, uses and abuses. Each week, the course examines a different aspect of the Orient, including the Orient as literary device, as political tool, as entertainment, as playground, as cuisine, as sexual object, as friend and as foe. Authors considered include Salman Rushdie, E.M. Forster, Marguerite Duras, Mishima Yukio, Maxine Hong Kingston, Edward Said, Lisa Lowe, Vijay Prashad, among others. Also considered are additional materials drawn from visual and filmic arts, including works by Jean-Lon Grme, David Lean, Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, among others.
Ji-Song Ku, T, 4:25-7:25
COLI 535D/ARTH 575J CONTESTATION POSTWAR ART/CULT
This seminar takes up the subject of cultural contestation as it was reinvented by postwar theorists and neo-avant-garde artists, with special attention to Europe in the 1960s. In particular, we will examine attempts to rethink resistance to late capitalism and its administered everyday life outside of orthodox leftist positions. Opening classes will analyze a number of themes: the rearticulation of montage strategies from the interwar period, developing the work of Brecht and Duchamp; the cultural politics of decolonization; notions of the reciprocal readymade, or the ambivalent function of art in revolutionary culture; and the concept of festivity and the carnivalesque. The relevance of these projects for contemporary cultural production will also be explored.
McDonough, Fri., 1:10-4:10
COLI 535E/SPAN 471N CERVANTES'S SHORT FICTION
We will examine Cervantes's "Novelas ejemplares" and several "Entremeses". Our aim will be to discuss the formal aspects of these works with special attention to their historical context. Our theoretical approach will emphasize the reading process as we develop strategies for identifying the various "exemplary" components of the fiction, and the socio-cultural, as well as dramatic, components of the "Entremeses." Prerequisite: SPAN 360 or SPAN370 or equivalent.
Fajardo, T 4:25-7:25
COLI 535H PRIMITIVISM AND THE AMERICAS
This seminar explores the paradoxes, surprises, and difficulties that an interest in Primitivism creates for writers and artists in the Americas . How do writers influenced by the historical avant-garde represent a "Primitive" that is not exotic? How does the context of the racialized societies of the Americas inflect European Primitivism? What contrasts or parallels are there between the ways different literary traditions work with this problem? How do we understand the connection between Primitivism and nationalist cultural projects? Our discussions will focus on 20th century literary texts of the Americas . We will also read classic and contemporary theoretical accounts of the primitive. Books: Franz Boas, Primitive Art; Sieglinde Lemke, Primitivist Modernism Negro: An Anthology; Alejo Carpentier, Lost Steps; Oswald de Andrade,Cannibal Manifesto.
Moreira, T, 4:25-7:25
COLI 535J LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS: BOOM-PRESENT
Description: This course considers important literary contributions by Latin American women from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present. The primary focus is on the novel. We will engage in close textual analyses of works by: Elena Poniatowska, Claribel Alegria, Armonia Somers, Isabel Allende, Rosario Ferre, Maria Luisa Bombal, Clarice Lispector, Rosario Castellanos, Elena Garro, Diamela Eltit, and Sylvia Molloy. Sullivan, Thurs., 4:25-7:25
COLI 535M LITERATURE AFTER MEXICAN REVOLUTION
This class will examine Mexican history and literature that follow those of the Mexican Revolution, but that remain bound to the Revolution all the same. Events to be studied include: the massacres of 1968, the guerrilla movements of the 70s, repression within journalism, and the EZNL's recent Chiapas rebellion. Also analyzed, via de Certeau's The Writing of History and Gilly's The Mexican Revolution, will be the relation of history and fiction. Novels by both contemporary authors (Montemayor, Subcomandante Marcos, Taibo, Aguilar Camin, Urrea) and ones from the previous generation (Fuentes, Poniatowska, Pacheco).
Levinson, W, 4:40-7:40
COLI 574C/PIC 622G
CARIBBEAN PHILOSOPHY - (No description given)
Lugones, M, 4:40-7:40
COLI 574R GRUNDRISSE
What is at stake in Marx's concept of political economy? What are the logical and existential coordinates of the concept? Our hypothesis is this: that if the texts of Marx have any pertinence to the current situation, it is because the concept of political economy as articulated in the GRUNDRISSE opens upon an other experience of aesthesis, an other relation of poiesis to praxis, an other experience of the common, an other, communist, ontology. We pursue these issues in a close reading of the GRUNDRISSE.
Haver, R, 4:25-7:25
COLI 574S/ARTH 503F ART HIST AFTER STRUCTURALISM
The aim of this seminar will be to grasp the challenge of a set of arguments and modes of analysis from Saussure to Lvi-Strauss, Lacan, Barthes, Althusser, Foucault and Derrida that have had an enormous influence on the humanities over the past forty years, yet still stir up controversy. They do so precisely because they have interrupted the established analytical procedures and conceptual frameworks upon which the disciplines that make up the humanities including art history were founded in the nineteenth century. Yet, the effects of these disciplinary challenges have been far from negative. They have rather opened the way to a new urgency of debate and an intellectual productivity that came late to art history, but came nonetheless, provoking those varieties of dissent that the interests of marketing and established institutions have tried to repackage as The New Art History. The seminar will be conducted as a structured reading group whose emphasis will be on the close analysis of specific texts that will, however, be located in an unfolding argument, from week to week. No prior knowledge of the literature or terminology will be assumed, but a serious commitment to the reading program will be essential. Meetings will be focused on weekly readings, with regular student presentations and a variety of research tasks designed to develop specific critical and research skills. The seminar assignment will involve the preparation of a detailed syllabus on an agreed topic, including a synopsis, structured outline, readings and full bibliography. Taught concurrently with ARTH 500.
Tagg, T, 4:25-7:25
COLI 580P/EDUC 580C TEACHING THE LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN WAR IN VIETNAM
The course includes becoming familiar with the processes of close and intertextual reading, with different modes of analytical thought, and with the practice of translating reading and thinking into writing -- and the implications of these processes for teaching this literature. We will read about the American War in Vietnam as experienced and given literary form by those who fought it, reported it or otherwise felt its immediate effects in their lives: combat veterans, nurses, journalists, etc., and consider the most effective ways of engaging, interrogating and teaching this material. By reading various genres including memoirs, letters, essays, novels, stories and poetry and by responding to this writing, we will study how any experience is multitudinous and how genres manipulate experience in different ways.
Burch, R, 4:25-7:25
EDUC 501 (also MASS 522). CRUCIAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION
Interdisciplinary framework for the study of contemporary educational problems. Analysis and criticism of current issues, uncovering historical, sociological, philosophical and economic foundations. Special attention to cultural diversity, educational equity and institutionalized forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism and homophobia. Stedman, 4:25-7:00
EDUC 508 (also HIST 530B). ISSUES IN U.S. HISTORY, 1877-PRESENT
This is one of two central content courses for students earning a Graduate Certificate in the Teaching of U.S. History. Exposure to selected interpretive issues in U.S. history after 1877 within a framework that permits students to focus on ways to introduce these issues into the secondary school classroom. Examination of alternative interpretations of events and processes in U.S. history, working with primary sources that underpin those interpretations. Offered in Spring 2004.
Harper, 4:40-7:40
EDUC 601 CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES IN EDUCATION
Examination of philosophical assumptions that inform educational practice and policy. Exploration of important relationships, including the connections between educational theory and practice, knowledge and human interests, democracy and education, and diversity and community. Theorizing is made meaningful to practitioners as they analyze contemporary educational issues not only through the writings of distinguished philosophers and social theorists, but also through their own critical frameworks.
Carpenter, 4:25-7:00
ENG 572A ENGENDERING THE NATION 1760-1830
Between the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century, the American colonies became the United States , and England , Scotland , Wales , and Ireland joined to become the United Kingdom . These momentous national transformations were accompanied by equally important changes in the social and political roles of ordinary men and women. This course will draw on feminist and postcolonial theory to examine how national identities shaped and were shaped by gender identities on both sides of the Atlantic . We'll place late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century American and British works in conversation, reading American writers like Susanna Rowson, Phillis Wheatley, and Thomas Paine along with British writers including Maria Edgeworth, Hannah More, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Juliet Shields, TR 10:05-11:30 a.m.
Course requirements will include a class presentation, several short response papers, and a final 15-20 page essay.
ENG 572W THEORY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Examines a variety of types of discourse dealing with issues of human rights. Sets of issues will vary from semester to semester. This spring we will consider some issues of civil rights, womens rights, workers rights. In addition to the range of discourse constituting the primary readings, applicable theory readings will be assigned.
David Bartine , TR 1:15-2:40 p.m.
ENG 572Y FOUCAULT, SAID AND GLOBALIZATION
In this course we will read several major works of Michel Foucault
(ARCHAEOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE, MADNESS AND CIVILIZATION, DISCIPLINE AND PUNISH, LANGUAGE, COUNTER-MEMORY, PRACTICE AND CARE OF THE SELF) and of Edward Said (ORIENTALISM, COVERING ISLAM, CULTURE AND IMPERIALISM, and HUMANISM AND DEMOCRATIC CRITICISM) in the light of the debates over the relationship between the nation state and transnationalism. Besides showing the relationship (and difference) between Foucault's and Said's thought vis a vis Discourse, the course will explore the significance of their thought as it relates to the question of globalization. More specifically, it will consider their work as manifestations of thinking in the interregnum: between a dying world -- the world organized around the nation state -- and a globalized world struggling to be born. In the process the course will consider the relevance of their writing for the arguments about the waning of the nation state in the face of the rise of transnational or late capitalism (Negri and Hardt) and about the clash of civilizations (Samuel Huntington and a host of other intellectual deputies of the George W. Bush Administration).
Format: attendance; class participation; a short midterm essay (4-6 pp) and a long term paper dealing with an issue raised by the course (15-20 pp. and written as if it would be submitted for publication).
William Spanos, TR 2:50-4:15 p.m.
ENG 572Z THEORIZING RACE AND DESIRE IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL CONTEXTS
In this course, we will think about the multiple arenas through which race is made: the economy, culture, religion, law, psychology, sexuality, and desire. Paying particular attention to the relationship between race and intimacy, we will seek to make sense of global and national stratification from colonialism to the present. Authors will include: Franz Fanon, Laura Ann Stoler, David Eng, Anne McClintock, Omni & Winant, Catherine Hall, Doris Garraway, among others.
Donette Francis, T 4:25-7:25 p.m.
ENG 593F GLOBALIZATION, CONSUMER CULTURE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
In a time of increasing environmental crisis--from hurricanes and tsunamis, global warming, overpopulation, and species extinction to health problems associated with food production, new disease epidemics, and the depletion of the natural resources such as oil on which all advanced economies depend--public attention and popular culture are finally turning green. Contemporary environmentalism or green philosophy is one of the best-developed critiques of globalization and consumer culture. Debates in contemporary environmentalism center around the shift from a mechanistic, transcendent world view prevalent since the Enlightenment--an anthropocentric, human-centered ideology where nature is "other"--to a more hybrid, relational, and immanent model of thought that takes into account the concepts of the intrinsic value of nature, environmental justice, sustainable development, and green marketing. From the theoretical orientation of the globalization and consumer culture debates, we will explore developments in environmentalism and contemporary literature that engage with these issues. We will look at three major points of focus in the critique of the American empire and the consumer culture that fuels it: the impact on the individual, the impact on cultural values, and the impact on the environment.
Readings may include: David Held & Anthony McGrew, eds., THE GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS READER; Michael Zimmerman et al, eds., ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY; Eric Schlosser, FAST FOOD NATION; Howard Kunstler, THE LONG EMERGENCY; Al Gore, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH; Carolyn Merchant, RADICAL ECOLOGY; Margaret Atwood, ORYZ AND CRAKE; Wendell Berry, THE ART OF THE COMMONPLACE; Chang-Rae Lee, ALOFT; Barbara Kingsolver, ANIMAL DREAMS; Barry Lopez, RESISTANCE.
Leslie Heywood, M 3:30-6:30 p.m.
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