ENGL 3377: Multicultural Literature, Inve[n/r]ting "Multicultural" (Fall 2019)

Studies special topics in multicultural literature; specially designed for English majors. Topics vary each semester. Repeatable: Repeatable for up to 6.00 total credit hours. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. Additional Information: Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities Departmental Category: Multicultural and Gender Studies

ENGL 2717: American Indian Literature (Fall 2019)

Surveys historical and contemporary North American Native American literature. Examines the continuity and incorporation of traditional stories and values in Native Literature, including novels, short stories and poetry. NOTE: Fall 2019 - This is a HYBRID course, meaning it will be part in-person and part online. Contact engldept@colorado.edu with any...

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ENGL 4717-001: Native American & Indigenous Studies Seminar (Spring 2019)

Oct. 3, 2018

Engages a wide range of NAIS methodologies with a series of case studies. Focuses on print, visual, and digital texts encompassing wide swathe of Eurowestern disciplines, while seeking to recuperate and restore Indigenous epistemic practices within our scholarship. Refines students' skills in intellectual debate in the spirit of shared inquiry...

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ENGL 4677-001: Jewish-American Literature (Spring 2019)

In this class we explore a variety of Jewish-American literary works from the late nineteenth century to the present through writers such as Abraham Cahan, Anzia Yezierska, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, Jonathan Safran Foer, Nicole Krauss, and Cynthia Ozick, among others. We examine a number of questions...

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ENGL 3377-880: Multicultural Literature, Inve[n/r]ting “Multicultural” (Spring 2019)

In a provocative 2004 speech entitled “I Have a Plan to Destroy America,” Richard D. Lamm, the former three-term Governor of Colorado, equated “multi-culturalism” with “the doctrine of ‘Victimology.’ ” A decade later, CU Boulder renamed the “Center for Multicultural Affairs” as the “Cultural Unity & Engagement Center.” Yet “multicultural...

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ENGL 2767-001: Survey of Post-colonial Literature (Spring 2019)

This course introduces students to the work of authors from formerly colonized nations in the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia. Focusing primarily, though not exclusively, on prose fiction, we will examine how postcolonial writers engage with issues of national identity and decolonization; negotiate the competing imperatives of English and vernacular...

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ENGL 4277-001: Topics in Women's Literature, 19th and 20th Century Women's Poetry

This course will track developments in women’s poetry over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries in Britain and the U.S. We’ll consider the variety of styles they used to address questions ranging from marriage to science, motherhood to work, religion to politics. Although not all the poets we...

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ENGL 3767-001: Feminist Fictions

This course examines a series of literary texts to consider how writers across the world have used fiction to creatively stage and reimagine gender and sexuality. Attends to the formal and narrative techniques by which these texts call attention to the fictionality--and thereby the creative malleability--of gender itself. Some cinematic...

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ENGL 3377-001: Multicultural Literature, First Nations Film

This course examines contemporary films by First Nations directors, emphasizing works by women and LGBTQ2 filmmakers. We will view films across a range of genres, horror, fantasy, romance, documentary, sci-fi, and so on. The films will cover a range of issues germane to First Nations communities, including residential schools, treaty...

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ENGL 2767-001: Survey of Post-colonial Literature

This course introduces students to the work of authors from formerly colonized nations in the Caribbean, Africa, and South Asia. Focusing primarily, though not exclusively, on prose fiction, we will examine how postcolonial writers engage with issues of national identity and decolonization; negotiate the competing imperatives of English and vernacular...

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