Open when gep_category = HUM
Each course in the Humanities category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = MATH
Each course in the Mathematial Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = NATSCI
Each course in the Natural Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = SOCSCI
Each course in the Social Sciences category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = INTERDISC
Each course in the Interdisciplinary Perspectives category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Identify and distinguish between approaches to literature and cultural history from disciplines
including English, Communications, History, and Media Studies.
Critical Essay:
Considerations of newspaper serialization often serve as traditional ways of understanding the literature of this period. Beyond such insight, how does the historical development of the railroad, telephone, telegraph, and developing modes of surveillance inform our understanding of Victorian literature? Among others, consider the influence of the railroad on works by Dickens, Rossetti, and Wordsworth as well as Twain’s depiction of speaking on the telephone. To what degree are Henry James’s insights on surveillance still relevant today? Use insights from the historians and communication scholars we’ve read such as Stanley, Kate, Punch, and Keep.
Identify, analyze, and apply applications of and cross-connections between disciplines producing scholarship on literature and the historical past, such as English, Communications, History, and Media Studies
Critical Essay:
Delineate multiple disciplinary approaches to a single course text and discuss their relative interests, strengths, and weaknesses one by one.
Develop and execute critical and creative syntheses of the methodologies of the two disciplines listed above.
Critical Essay:
Considerations of newspaper serialization often serve as traditional ways of understanding the literature of this period. Beyond such insight, how does the historical development of the railroad, telephone, telegraph, and developing modes of surveillance inform our understanding of Victorian literature? Among others, consider the influence of the railroad on works by Dickens, Rossetti, and Wordsworth as well as Twain’s depiction of speaking on the telephone. To what degree are Henry James’s insights on surveillance still relevant today? Use insights from the historians and communication scholars we’ve read such as Stanley, Kate, Punch, and Keep.
English and Communication
Though interdisciplinary in nature, this course is inherently cohesive through its focus on a common topic. Our readings and discussions of fictional and non-fictional texts will encourage students to consider how the interactions among technologies, media, and literature shape the cultural past from a variety of disciplinary perspectives (listed above), which will be reinforced by in-class exercises and assignments asking them to apply and synthesize these approaches. See the attached syllabus for details.
Open when gep_category = VPA
Each course in the Visual and Performing Arts category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
Open when gep_category = HES
Each course in the Health and Exercise Studies category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to:
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Open when gep_category = GLOBAL
Each course in the Global Knowledge category of the General Education Program will provide instruction and guidance that help students to achieve objective #1 plus at least one of objectives 2, 3, and 4:
Please complete at least 1 of the following student objectives.
Open when gep_category = USDIV
Each course in the US Diversity category
of the General Education Program will provide instruction and
guidance that help students to achieve at least 2 of the following
objectives:
Please complete at least 2 of the following student objectives.