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REQUIREMENTS: One argumentative paper, one performance or film discussion/ presentation, one close reading, and a series of smaller writing assignments. TENTATIVE READING LIST: The Merchant of Venice Titus Andronicus The Tempest The Jew of Malta Scholarly articles related to the listed plays Excerpts of various Renaissance texts related to course theme ENGL 231 - BRIT AUTHORS SINCE 1800 Time Days Sec Faculty Class# 1100-1215p TR 001 Staff 4361 Aim: Teaching Method: Requirements: Tentative Reading List: ENGL 239 - FILM DIRECTORS -- "WOMEN FILMMAKERS" Time Days Sec Faculty Class# 0130-0440p W 001 Foster, G 4138 Special fee - $30. Aim: This course will focus on the history of women film directors from the birth of cinema in the 1890's to the present. Women made considerable contributions to the art of filmmaking in all periods of cinema history, especially in the early days of film when there were many, many female directors. The history of women in early cinema has been neglected until very recently. One of the most interesting aspects of the class is discovering how film history in being actively rewritten to include the work of women and minority film directors. This is an exciting class in which we study the history of women as film directors and utilize feminist approaches to their work. We will study films from directors such as Alice Guy Blaché, Lois Weber, Maya Deren, Ida Lupino, Claire Denis, Lucrecia Martel, Agnes Varda, Kasi Lemmons, Sofia Coppola and many others. The course covers an international spectrum of women filmmakers; therefore we discuss nationality, race, class, sexuality, and other identity markers. This is a very exciting and unique class that covers rare films by neglected and forgotten women in film history, as well as the films of contemporary women directors. Teaching Method: Classes typically include a brief opening lecture, a film screening (with running analytical commentary), and a class discussion of the film director, her work, and her place in history. We also discuss the reading materials after we view the film. We do a significant amount of reading about women in film history, analysis of films, biographical material, and interviews with women directors. Prior knowledge of film or women's history is not necessary. Developing analytical writing skills as a writer and class participant is crucial. 12 – UNL DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, SPRING 2014
Requirements: Formal weekly papers of 3-5 pages, weekly reading assignments, active discussion. Participation is key. Students should be ready to study many different types of films directed by women, from early silent films to documentaries, and from art-house films to mainstream cinema. Tentative Reading List: Anthony Slide, The Silent Feminists; and Karen Ward Mahar, Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood; and additional readings in the form of online readings including interviews, biography, feminist theory, film analysis, etc. ENGL 243 - NATIONAL LITERATURES -- "THE INVENTION OF MODERN SOUTH AFRICA: LITERATURE, FILM, CULTURE" Time Days Sec Faculty Class# 1130-1220p MWF 001 Wisnicki, A 22412 Aim: South Africa boasts one of the most complex and dynamic histories of any modern African nation. Once a country split along racial lines thanks to its Apartheid government, South Africa is today one of the most socially progressive democracies in Africa – a country that defies international stereotypes of the typical, war-torn, hopelessly impoverished African nation. In this course, we'll engage South Africa's history head on. We'll read literature, watch films, and explore cultural discourses that capture the many fascinating aspects of recent South African history and lived reality. Teaching: Discussion, student-led textual analysis, small group work, student presentations, occasional background lectures. As needed, the instructor will also expand class instruction by discussion of his own visits to South Africa in 2003-04 and 2013. Requirements: Study of all course materials, participation, weekly reading responses, one presentation, two essays. Tentative Reading: Selections from political prose (Nelson Mandela's Long Walk to Freedom, Steve Biko's I Write What I Like, Mamphela Ramphele's Conversations with my Sons and Daughters), film (Tsotsi, District 9), drama (Athol Fugard's The Island), novels (Bessie Head's A Question of Power, Nadine Gordimer's July’s People, Diela Matthee's Fiela's Child, J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace), and short fiction (Njabulo Ndebele's Fools and Other Stories, Zoe Wicomb's You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town) ENGL 244 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN LIT SINCE 1865 Time Days Sec Faculty Class# 1100-1215p TR 001 Staff 3256 ENGL 245N - INTRO TO NATIVE AMERICAN LIT Further information unavailable at this time Time Days Sec Faculty Class# 1030-1120a MWF 001 Gannon, T 4906 Aim: This course is a survey of Native American literatures, a body of texts of true diversity in both its great variety of genres and the variety of its historical & cultural contexts. The broad socio-historical scope notwithstanding, an appropriate emphasis will be placed upon the "Native American Renaissance" that began in the latter 1960's. And so representative authors will include both pre-modern shamans & "matriarchs"—AND postmodern "warriors" & tricksters. The selections from the Trout anthology are, at times, teasingly brief; but, UNL DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, SPRING 2014 – 13
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