to an intellectual community that values diverse perspectives, curiosity, and high academic standards. Texts: selected from among the authors listed in the description
to engage consistently as close readers, spirited discussion leaders, meticulous and insightful writers, and creative thinkers. In addition, students will be expected to contribute positively and collaboratively to an intellectual community that values diverse perspectives, curiosity, and high academic standards. Text: Bird by Bird Advanced English: Literary History and Movements: American Postmodernism One Semester (Offered Second Semester) Prerequisites: Completion of advanced elective prerequisites The course examines the postmodern period in American fiction. It will start by exploring the definition of and key debates about postmodernism through the study of a few seminal theoretical texts. Following this, the main texts will include four novels, all published between 1965-1999, which display a wide range of key aesthetic and political concerns of the period. We will be especially interested in how postmodern fiction uses strategies that deconstruct “master narratives” and destabilize traditional notions of truth, narrative, and identity. Moreover, we will explore if the required texts support or challenge the critique that postmodern art’s playfulness and irony serve rather than challenge the status quo. As members of an advanced class, students will be expected to engage consistently as close readers, spirited discussion leaders, meticulous and insightful writers, and creative thinkers. In addition, students will be expected to contribute positively and collaboratively to an intellectual community that values diverse perspectives, curiosity, and high academic standards. Texts: The Crying of Lot 49, So Far from God, Tropic of Orange, The Intuitionist Advanced English: Literary History and Movements: American Renaissance One Semester (Offered First Semester) Prerequisites: Completion of advanced elective prerequisites The course examines The American Renaissance, a period considered one of the most influential in American literature. We will explore groundbreaking works including Herman Melville’s Moby Dick , which has often been praised as the greatest American novel, and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass , which revolutionized poetry. Alongside Melville and Whitman, we will analyze texts by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, and Harriet Jacobs, all offering distinct voices and visions for a nation headed to civil war. As members of an advanced class, students will be expected to engage consistently as close readers, spirited discussion leaders, meticulous and insightful writers, and creative thinkers. In addition, students will be expected to contribute positively and collaboratively
Advanced English: Short Story One Semester (Offered First Semester)
Prerequisites: Completion of advanced elective prerequisites This class will focus exclusively on the short story, investigating a variety of literary issues, some of which are universal and some of which are unique to the genre. Due to the brevity of each text, students will have an opportunity to encounter and analyze a much wider range of authors and writing styles than in a class that reads standard-length novels and plays. A central goal of the course is to help students to discover and define personal preferences.The works for this class have been selected with an eye to serious, adult-themed literature that would serve as preparation for university study. As members of an advanced class, students will be expected to engage consistently as close readers, spirited discussion leaders, meticulous and insightful writers, and creative thinkers. In addition, students will be expected to contribute positively and collaboratively to an intellectual community that values diverse perspectives, curiosity, and high academic standards. Texts: Coursepack
English: Contemporary Authors One Semester (Offered Second Semester) Prerequisites: None
This course explores texts written mostly by living authors, especially those who have strong University Liggett School, Detroit, and/or Michigan connections. Texts will vary depending on teacher expertise, student interest, and the availability of authors to engage with and/or visit the class. Texts: The Virgin Suicides & materials provided by the instructor
English: Craft of Writing One Semester (Offered First Semester) Prerequisites: None
This course focuses on developing writing habits and skills that will be useful for academic, professional, and personal pursuits. Celebrating student choice and voice, Craft of Writing allows students to select the topics of their compositions; in addition, it emphasizes how purpose, genre, and audience intertwine when creating effective writing. In sum, this course helps students understand writing as a process; offers extensive practice with and feedback on essential writing skills; and argues that writing in both academic and non-academic contexts serves as a crucial tool for thinking, discovery, and transformation—as well as for communication. Text: Coursepack
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