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Academic Year 2001/2002

Introduction to Critical Theory
ENGL 198 FA

This course offers an introduction to thinkers and works that have led to major changes in critical and cultural theory. Readings are short, but the extracts from philosophical and linguistic texts are quite demanding.

MAJOR READINGS

Readings selected from nineteenth and twentieth century theoreticians such as Marx, Freud, Saussure, Foucault, Althusser, and Jameson.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Frequent short papers and a longer final paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

A willingness to read and reread relatively short but conceptually difficult texts.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-19-2002

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