Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd English Composition

• IUB GenEd English Composition credit
• COLL (CASE) English Composition credit

Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd English Composition

• IUB GenEd English Composition credit
• COLL (CASE) English Composition credit

Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd English Composition

• IUB GenEd English Composition credit
• COLL (CASE) English Composition credit

Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd English Composition

• IUB GenEd English Composition credit
• COLL (CASE) English Composition credit

TOPIC: Valiant Voyages "Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses" The stories we read - much like life itself - are often concerned with journeys and with destinations. From where am I coming? To where am I going? How can I get from here to there? Sometimes these travels are planned long in advance, and at other times appear unexpectedly, prompting growth and new forms of understanding. Similarly, stories of fictional journeys can broaden our own personal horizons, in addition to being enjoyable to read, watch, or play. In this class we will read some of the most well-known and popular travel tales from antiquity to the present, seeing the sights and using literature to develop how we ourselves think and write about worlds both real and imaginary. This course introduces composition skills applicable to all majors: topic and thesis development, finding and integrating evidence, drafting and revising, organization from introduction to conclusion. It uses literary texts from diverse genres, periods, and national traditions for discussion and essay topics. The course will be graded primarily through one close reading and two comparative essays, with time set aside in-class for workshopping ideas and revising essay drafts. Class periods will focus on discussion of the day's reading assignment of 20-40 pages, with students being encouraged to consider course content in comparison with the books, movies, and games they've enjoyed from beyond the booklist and outside the classroom.

Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd English Composition

• IUB GenEd English Composition credit
• COLL (CASE) English Composition credit

Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd English Composition

• TOPIC: Animal Tales
• IUB GenEd English Composition credit
• COLL (CASE) English Composition credit

Lecture (LEC)

• IUB GenEd English Composition

• IUB GenEd English Composition credit
• COLL (CASE) English Composition credit

THEME: Monumental Works Literature and its relationship to the visual arts has been theorized since antiquity: Both Plato in The Republic and Aristotle in Poetics categorize painters, poets, and musicians as imitators of nature and life. They re-create a likeness to everyday life while nourishing the outpour of emotion. In his commentaries on Aristotle¿s Poetics, the Muslim philosopher, al-Farabi, categorizes both poetry and art as forms of syllogistic thinking: methods of demonstration that convince us of the likeness of two or more dissimilar things. Architecture and literature serve as integrative examples of how art is fundamentally intertwined with our everyday lives. Verbal and visual depictions of architecture allow us to see and imagine what is otherwise abstract as a material object: the passage of time, the stakes of religious and political doctrines, the experience of memories, subjective perceptions of the self and the other, and a writer¿s perception of their own works. Arguably, architectural representations of narrative structures are present since the very beginning of literature; The City of Uruk in the Akkadian Epic of Gilgamesh; the Palace of Alkinoos in the Homeric Odyssey which functions as a structure for a larger artistic and poetic revision of The Iliad; The Temple of Solomon in First Kings from The Hebrew Bible; Augustine¿s City of God, in contrast to the Earthly City; The Seven Heavens in Quran¿s Surah al-Isra¿; Nezami¿s allegorical architecture in Palace of the Seven Domes; de Pizan¿s building of The City of Ladies; Dante¿s architecture of the afterlife in the Divine Comedy, and its reconstitution in the poetry of Milton, Spenser, and Blake; the mysterious architecture of Borges, Lovecraft, and Poe; the psychological architecture of Emily Dickinson¿s home in her lyric poetry, and Pablo Neruda¿s poetic archaeology of the Machu Picchu are a few notable examples. Naturally, the course will only focus on five examples from literary works. The visual depiction of real and imagined buildings, artworks, and monuments is the topic of this course. The course develops critical thinking skills and vocabulary while also developing key composition skills: topic and thesis development, finding and integrating evidence, drafting and revising, organization from introduction to conclusion. Presentations on literary history will be integrated into the discussion of assigned readings.