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English 200 - Fall, 2010
Introduction to Graduate Studies in English
Class Information
Instructor:
Hsu, Hsuan L.
CRN:
61796
Time:
M 12:10-3:00
Location:
248 Voorhies
Description
DESCRIPTION: This seminar introduces Ph.D. students to graduate study in English by focusing on methods and methodological debates in literary study. The aim of this course is to prepare new students for advanced work in the field and to orient them in the profession. We will do this by considering how to integrate the close analysis of literary texts with different research methods and theoretical debates. The core of this course consists in your own active research on a primary text of your choice. In order to provide perspective on your research, we will read and discuss work that exemplifies and/or questions some of the key research methods and debates in literary studies. Occasional faculty visitors will supplement our readings by sharing their own thinking about these developments. Topics and weekly research assignments will include manuscript study, publication context, reception history, critical debate, genre, historical research, intertextuality, and theoretical perspectives. In addition to completing short weekly research papers on these topics in relation to your primary text, you will also develop a 7-page research paper that integrates this research and crystallizes your arguments about the primary text.
READINGS: a text of your choice (please read as much of this text as you can over the summer, before the first class meeting); other readings to be distributed online
Grading
ASSIGNMENTS: participation and several in-class presentations (30%); eight 2-page papers based on weekly research assignments (30%); 7-page research paper due at end of term (40%).
