THEORY AND WRITING: QUEER THEORY in Spring 2024 (CL2085)

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Examines the major tenets, philosophical perspectives, and critical orientations of literary theory from Plato and Aristotle to the present. Students study critical texts from literary and non-literary disciplines, schools, and voices that have come to impact the Western theoretical canon, including psychoanalysis, Marxism, Russian formalism, structuralism, deconstruction, feminism, queer theory, new historicism, and post-colonialism.

Course Master: 
THEORY AND WRITING (CL2085)
Term: 
Spring 2024
Discipline: 
CL (Comparative Literature)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
CCR
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Exam Date: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2024 - 16:00
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Relate current debates in theory and criticism to the critical tradition to which they are responding
  2. To characterize the principle ideas of a selection of important literary theorists from antiquity to the present
  3. Use the thought of the authors studied to analyze literary texts
  4. Students will be able to engage in the writing practices and culture of their chosen major, adding to the skills acquired in the Research, Interpretation, and Writing classes to develop a personal, authentic disciplinary voice (CCR)

Syllabus

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Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, January 15, 2024
End Date: 
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
16:55
18:15
G-207
Friday
16:55
18:15
G-207