This introductory course invites you to talk through shared intuitions, hesitations, doubts, and hopes with like-minded others. MWF 100-150 (Bryan 312), 029 - Writing about the Arts - Taking a place-specific approach to understanding the material practices and consequences of the Jim Crow regime, we’ll examine in depth the overlapping dimensions of everyday life where Jim Crow has been especially prominent, including: 1) personal and collective mobility; 2) the struggle over public education; 3) planning and access to public facilities; 4) housing and employment; and 5) the justice (or injustice) system. In this discussion-based seminar that serves as an elective in the DH Certificate, we will practice our own deliberate use of digital tools and reading, interpretation, and writing, in individual and shared projects and writing assignments. Among requirements are active participation; reading quizzes; co-leading of discussion, including your framing of discussion questions; and two 8-10 page papers. Topics include the solution of flow and heat transfer problems involving steady and transient convective and diffusive transport; superposition and panel methods for inviscid flow; finite-difference methods for elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations; elementary grid generation for odd geometries; and primitive variable and vorticity-steam function algorithms for incompressible, multidimensional flows. In this course, we'll examine how literature participates in struggles for justice. In considering what questions to ask of these mute objects, this course might be considered the "archaeology of printing"—that is, the identification, description, and interpretation of printed artifacts surviving from the past five centuries, as well as exploration of the critical theory that lies behind such an approach to texts. Over the course of the semester, we will tease out the common threads in these cases for philosophical, political, and economic revolution and interrogate the underpinnings of their arguments. In this class we will explore some of this Anglophone literature and consider whatever issues or concerns it raises, from the legacies of colonialism to ways that race, class, gender, violence, and religion show up in diverse societies in the global South. Prerequisite: Graduate standing and APMA 6410 or equivalent. Our exploration will begin with state-sanctioned conspiracy theories from WWII and the early years of the Cold War before taking up contemporary cases of propagandistic conspiracies from the past 25 years. Online school is inherently unfair as it varies students performance according to their situations and resources. This course will examine not only Austen’s oeuvre itself, but its legacy—its relationship with the novel, the 19th century, empire and whiteness, gender and sexuality, genre, and canon. UVa Class Schedules (Unofficial, Lou's List v2.10) New Features. In this class, we will read (and watch) stories that engage with the long tradition of the gothic: stories that are pleasurably thrilling, that structure themselves around suspense, secrecy, romance, intrigue, and even sometimes fear. Techniques for both homogeneous and nonhomogenous systems will be introduced. We will also view films like Johnny Belinda, Immortal Beloved, and Beyond Silence; documentaries such as Sound and Fury and Through Deaf Eyes; and movies by deaf filmmakers like Charles Krauel. While we will read a couple of longer works, we will also study a number of short stories in which a coming of age narrative—or some revelation demanding a new outlook on life—is presented in compressed form. You will also read a good deal of fiction, ideally becoming a more insightful consumer of stories and other narratives, and more aware of the various strategies and craft techniques authors use to create, as best they can, a piece of art—that is, a literary object that helps us understand what it is to be human—and also science fiction, an object that explores the tensions of our present time and our possible futures. This section will focus on the writing process in terms of the challenges and opportunities faced by multilingual writers writing academic prose in English. Lindgren Johnson, 057 - Topic TBD - Class Schedules Index: Course Catalogs Index: Class Search Page: These pages … A service learning component, in partnership with Madison House, will require students to volunteer in the C-ville Community. If utopias are concerned with conjuring the perfect society—a ‘good place’ that is yet ‘no place’—dystopias imagine the opposite. MWF 900-950 (Bryan 312), 032 - Writing about Culture/Society - MWF 100-150 (New Cabell 056) We’ll read N.K. (Includes Senior Waivers and High School Community Scholars) December 18, 2020 In imagining the South we seek a rooted, enduring culture in a sea of commercialism and mobility; we confront the persistence of racial and economic inequality at odds with the ideals of the United States; we insist upon the importance of locality in our increasingly global consciousnesses. Undergraduate courses will still begin Aug. 25, but all courses will begin online. Prerequisite: Two years of college mathematics, including some linear algebra, and the ability to write computer programs. Our readings will include some of the expected ports-of-call for this sort of excursion (Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Emerson, Thoreau, and their cultural heirs), but the texts will range widely, including not only short fiction, poetry, novels, essays, and drama, but also some song lyrics, diary entries, film excerpts, and side trips into the visual arts. An introductory course in fiction writing, with a primary focus on creating short stories in a workshop setting. Instructor permission required. Let’s get to 100! Du Bois, Alain Locke, Jessie Fauset, and Marcus Garvey; poetry by Georgia Douglas Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Anne Spencer, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay; fiction by Zora Neale Hurston, Rudolph Fisher, Nella Larsen and Wallace Thurman; drama by Willis Richardson and Zora Neale Hurston; art by Aaron Douglas and Augusta Savage; dancers and choreographers Katherine Dunham, the Nicholas brothers, and Josephine Baker; musicians Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Harry Burleigh, and Roland Hayes; photographers Addison Scurlock and James Van Der Zee; and the filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. In this seminar we will read closely the work of two great American novelists of the contemporary era: African American writer and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison, who died last year and whom this course will help to memorialize, and Native American writer Louise Erdrich, author of fourteen novels and winner of the National Book award. TR 500-615 (New Cabell 283), 085 - Topic TBD - each), a midterm and final. Eliot, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Wright, Sylvia Plath, and Audre Lorde. It is widely acknowledged today in various fields of medical research and clinical training that the effective and humane practice of medicine requires what has been called “narrative competence”: the ability to recognize and interpret the stories people tell; to attend closely to the details that accumulate to make a larger meaning; to evaluate contradictory and competing hypotheses about meaning; to locate expression within cultural context; and finally to appreciate and respond to any given story for its insight into the human condition. This course will study ancient Rome in Shakespeare’s representation of it. MouseOver the enrollment to see Last Update Time . Does our use of social media change our relationship to fictional characters? While devoting much of our attention to some of the most influential poetry from the second half of the twentieth century, we will also bring ourselves up to date by examining some of the best poems published in recent years. With this interrogation as a model, students are encouraged to engage our own campus more critically. TR 630-745 (New Cabell 209) Marcus Meade. Graduate and professional programs will start as previously planned. MW 330-445 (Bryan 330) In this course we will study some of the contradictory ways that deaf people have been depicted over the last three centuries. Whether you already sleep with a copy of Pride and Prejudice under your pillow or you’ve been living under a rock and this is the first you’ve ever heard of a lady named Jane Austen, you are welcome here. 069 - Topic TBD - Our text will be the New Oxford Annotated Bible, in either the 4th or 5th ed. Jon D'Errico, 036 - Writing about the Arts - Then on to Foucault: interviews, essays, and some of Discipline and Punish. Sure. We'll read one play per week, for the most part letting its particular concerns dictate the course of our conversation. We will work our way through the 19th and 20th centuries and end in the present with a study of Natasha Trethewey’s collection Thrall and a look at Childish Gambino’s “This is America.” No prior experience with poetics is expected. Contrasting these two kinds of narratives will raise thought-provoking questions on the nature of narrative and its intersections with discovery. Sarah O'Brien, 053 - Topic TBD - We will spend the first half of the semester reading verse and prose by Whitman and Dickinson. In-person instruction for undergraduates will now begin Sept. 8, and students will be able to move into residence halls several days before then. Along the way we will discuss English translations of the Bible; the process of canonization; textual history; and the long trail of interpretive approaches, ancient to contemporary. Non-Topical Research, Master's Thesis (1 - 12). Cross-listed as MAE 6410. Are there ethical and other costs for this mass of accessible records about what used to be considered private? Assignments such as album reviews, ‘diss’ tracks, and critical essays will allow you to engage topical and controversial issues such as: misogyny and homophobia in reggae and dancehall; the place of religion and spirituality (and yes, marijuana) in reggae; reggae’s critique of oppression and racial injustice; cultural appropriation and the global marketplace; and the connections between reggae, dancehall, hip-hop, EDM, and reggaetón. Our seminar is called the “Counterpoint Seminar” because it attempts to weave into harmony two disparate fields of study: literary studies and pedagogy. Attach a note telling me who and what year you are, your email address, what workshops you’ve taken and with whom, and whether you’re applying to other workshops. Anastatia Curley, 064 - Topic TBD - Also cross-listed as MAE 6240. 001 - Writing about Culture/Society - It explores the history of the American short story from the nineteenth century through our own by focusing specifically on medical themes: ailing and injured bodies and minds; doctors, nurses, and patients; the social construction of disease and madness as well as of health and sanity. Formal record of student commitment to project research under the guidance of a faculty advisor. Patricia Sullivan, 007 - Writing about Identities - Literacy Narratives We’ll discern the connections between romantic love and ideas of race, gender, nationhood and empire. Work for the course will include frequent in-class writing assignments, in-class presentations, three papers, and a final exam. Writing assignments will be frequent, brief, and experimental. Analyzes the systems of linear equations; vector spaces; linear dependence; bases; dimension; linear mappings; matrices; determinants; quadratic forms; eigenvalues; eigenvectors; orthogonal reduction to diagonal form; inner product spaces; numerical methods; geometric applications. Authors may include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, W.E.B DuBois, Willa Cather, T.S. Non-Topical Research, Doctoral Thesis (1 - 12). By permission only. Along the way we’ll consider how environmental criticism intersects with other forms of critical scholarship, including social justice studies, critical race studies, disability studies, gender and sexuality studies. William Carlos Williams said it. Shopping Cart For Fall 2021 Enrollment Opens to Students. And finally, what is peculiar to dystopia as a genre all its own? Class participation, two papers, a final, and short biweekly writings are required. Describes the mathematical foundations of continuum mechanics from a unified viewpoint. Along the way, we’ll take adaptation seriously as a mode of cultural critique. Students will complete a Midterm Project and a Final Portfolio. MWF 300-350 (Bryan 332), 049 - Topic TBD - Prerequisite: APMA 2120 or equivalent. Prerequisite: APMA 2120 or equivalent. We’ll consider the geopolitics not only of Harlem as a “Mecca of the New Negro” but also of Chicago, D.C., Richmond, and Lynchburg as instances of places contributing to the idea of the New Negro Renaissance. Kiki Petrosino Growing up—we all have to do it. For students with no exposure to high school calculus. Additionally, the course requires students to give an oral presentation on their research and to assemble a digital portfolio of their writing. Critical and creative work both fine. Students in dorms will be in double rooms by default, and will be able to choose roommates. Introduces phase-space methods, elementary bifurcation theory and perturbation theory, and applies them to the study of stability in the contexts of nonlinear dynamical systems and nonlinear waves, including free and forces nonlinear vibrations and wave motions. TR 1100-1215 (Bryan 310) TR 330-445 (New Cabell 132) Cross-listed as MAE 7720. Self-representation has never been more flourishing, for more kinds of people. Topics will include contrastive rhetorics, world Englishes, rhetorical listening, and tutoring multilingual writers. TR 200-315 (Bryan 328) This course satisfies the Second Writing Requirement. Lindgren Johnson. Towards the end of the course, we will also widen our scope to discuss the coming of age film, and relate our studies of long-form versus short form bildungsromane to its cinematic interpretations and reinventions. Fall 2020. This course is a survey of masterworks selected from the Old Icelandic (Old Norse) sagas, a set of major narratives written during the twelfth and thirteen centuries about events set in the period ca. 068 - Writing about Culture/Society - Music, Writing, Identity. Assignments put in alternation our aesthetic and theoretical concerns. TR 200-315 Besides conveying a text, each book also contains evidence of the circumstances of its manufacture, how its producers viewed it, and how its readers might have received it. “We live in difficult times, in times of monstrous chimeras and evil dreams and criminal follies,” Joseph Conrad wrote at the beginning of the 20th C. This course will explore the emergence of dystopia as a genre for the modern novel. I will take submissions through the end of July. 3 Women Who Changed UVA Law. A Modern and Global Studies seminar, this course is open to all others who are interested. Celebrated dystopian novels such as Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, George Orwell’s 1984, Margaret Atwood’s The Handsmaid’s Tale, Yevgeny Zamiantin’s We and more recent others distill the terrors of modern life onto a terribly estranged future. That was the best time. MWF 100-150 (New Cabell 064), 046 - Topic TBD - Satisfies Second Writing Requirement. Cross-listed as MAE 6720. (or equiv), Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations (3). What qualities do we find in writing we most admire—and why? TR 200-315 (Bryan 310) M 200-430 (Bryan 233) Podcast listenership has almost doubled since 2008 and continues to grow steadily. Applications. MWF 1200-1250 (Bryan 328) Shakespeare arrived in London and started work as an actor and playwright sometime in his late twenties, around the year 1590. What is it about podcasts that makes people want to “binge listen”? I expect to explore such themes as mobility and migration, mother-daughter relations, the “male gaze,” incarceration/escape, female masculinity, and conflicts/commonalities among women. Contact Prof. Fowler at ef4n@virginia.edu for information and to be added to the mailing list. Cross-listed with ENGL 8110. Students will be asked to experiment with gaming media (Twine, twitch, bitsy, or Unity) or fabricate a literary board game for their final project. Develops tools and mechanisms for reasoning about discrete problems. Lisa Goff Cross-listed with GETR 3710. In this course we’ll look briefly at several ancient and medieval Otherworlds and then move on to four popular novels: Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, Ursula Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness, China Mieville’s The City and the City, and one to be chosen by the class. These can be 19th-, 20th-, or 21st-century poets. Please note, there are no pre-requisite courses for law school. Kiera Allison, 002 TR 500-615 (New Cabell 064), 006 - Topic TBD - There will be two papers (around 6pp. With undergraduate classes set to commence Aug. 25, UVA will use a staggered schedule over several days to welcome first-year students and others living on Grounds who wish to return. Anastatia Curley. Both physical and mathematical implications considered. Last Day to Withdraw from a Class (done in SIS; paper forms due to 101 Monroe Hall BEFORE 5 PM) TBD. This course will interrogate how the frontier has been imagined as a space of national desire, dread, enterprise and experimentation from Jefferson to the contemporary Western. Prerequisite: APMA 2120 or equivalent. Students will learn techniques for making sense of poetry and will learn to scan poems (marking stressed and unstressed syllables) using the For Better for Verse website. Remember when you took a weekly 2.5 hour intermediate poetry workshop, open to undergraduates by instructor permission? By the end of the semester we should have a richer sense of the Bible as source of much that we hear and read. Marvel’s Black Panther Specific topics include nonlinear elasticity, creep, visco-elasticity, and elasto-plasticity. The student must be prepared to confront unpardonable adaptations of adaptations of adaptations. Focusing primarily on novels published in the U.S. from the Antebellum through Progressive Eras, we'll consider how literature addressed slavery, segregation, urban poverty, Native American land rights, the rights of workers, women's rights, and immigration. How does the discourse that posits the UVA Lawn as a seminal architectural legacy of a United States founding father help to distinguish the Lawn’s residents from passers-by, who must admire it from a respectful distance? Short papers from time to time, and a long one at the end. document.write("
Department of English"); Area Program in Literary Prose Writing (APLP), Concentration in Teaching Literature and Writing, Concentration in World Religions, World Literatures, Placement Information and Help for Job Seekers. UVA is the ideal place to study gothic literature, since it houses the world’s largest collection of gothic fiction. Thus: Kafka: Cervantes, Kafka: Bible, Kafka: Aesop, Kafka: Dostoevsky, Kafka: Melville; Kafka: O'Connor, Kafka: Singer; Kafka: Calvino, Kafka: Borges. 001 In formulating his model of the psyche and his theory of psychoanalysis, Freud, a scientist with a vast humanistic education, availed himself of analogies drawn from various fields, including mechanics, optics, philosophy, politics--and not least, literature. Class Search Options. We will study 6-8 poets who have written accentual-syllabic verse in English in the past 400 years. You composed a Final Portfolio. Instructor Permission is required for registration. Students should be prepared for some challenging materials and heavy reading load. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and APMA 3110. In addition to the English department website, you may also want to use Lou’s List to search for courses in English (as well as all other departments at UVA). The registration periods for Bachelor's and Master’s courses at the Faculty of Humanities are: First semester 2020-2021: Tuesday, 9 June (08:00) - Tuesday, 23 June 2020 (13:00) Second semester 2020-2021: Tuesday, 1 December (08:00) - Tuesday, 15 December 2020 (13:00) Overview of the registration periods of all UvA degree programmes. We will read these works of political and philosophical prose in conversation with literary works—from Francis Bacon’s scientific utopia New Atlantis to Aphra Behn’s comedy about the romantic exploits of Cavaliers in exile—that meditate on the transformations and continuities of the century in markedly different ways. I recognize that seminar members may come to this course with different levels of knowledge about and comfort with literary theory and culturally responsive pedagogy. Remember your poem in the form of a geometrical proof? Withdrawals from individual courses after the drop deadline, while remaining registered in other courses, can be made according to the schedule set by the individual schools. Students will study basic poetic terms and techniques and revise and arrange a series of poems for a final portfolio. TR 500-615 (New Cabell 209) Our website has been updated with this new information, and with instructions for students on how to search for classes. We’ll interpret fiction in light of historical changes in conceptions of love, based in factors including shifting economic conditions, changing legal and social conceptions of marriage, love, citizenship, and queer sexualities, and modern psychology. We’ll spend time working through why anxiety—and a kind of obsession with anxiety (as a mood)—seems to haunt American writing, as well has how that anxiety manifests both formally and thematically. MWF 1100-1150 (Bryan 312) This sequence allows students to take more time, in smaller sections and with support from the Writing Center, practicing and reinforcing the activities that are central to the first-year writing course. This course examines romantic love in U.S. fiction from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth-first centuries. We will read fiction, short and long, by authors like Defoe, de Musset, Turgenev, Melville, Maupassant, Twain, Bierce, McCullers, Welty, O'Connor, and Thon, along with prose by such deaf writers as Laurent Clerc, Adele Jewel, Bernard Bragg, and Sotonwa Opeoluwa. Applications. MWF 900-950 (New Cabell 036), 002 - Topic TBD - TR 1100-1215 (New Cabell 038) Stephen Parks, 011 - Writing about Identities - Contemplative Writing By comparing the works from the end of the last two centuries, we will ask how art (broadly defined) reflects our anxieties, and how it helps us transcend them. Yet as literacy itself evolves, we still lack satisfactory data on how writing (and its counterpart, reading) affects our neurology and cognition--and therefore, how literacy affects who we are as humans. Among the topics to be considered are the Romantic redefinition of heroism and tragedy, the idea of the sublime, the development of Romantic myth, reactions to the French Revolution and, more generally, the political context of Romanticism, the nature of Romantic irony, and Romantic orientalism and views of empire. In alternation our aesthetic and theoretical concerns Otherworld ” is an introduction to probability theory and work the. 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