COL 717SEM - Special Topics

These courses address specific issues and/or methodologies raised within the discipline. They reflect the specialized interests of the faculty teaching them, and they engage the most current scholarship on the subject matter alongside historical criticism. They may be organized around a literary or theoretical topic (e.g. literature and human rights; the concepts of paradox, contradiction, and aporia; thinking in globalization and the digital age, border literature, etc.), or around the work of a particular thinker (e.g. Plato, Kant, Deleuze, Irigaray, Fanon, Foucault). Though topics vary each time, all special topics courses emphasize current theoretical methodologies in the reading of literature and culture, and require from the students to demonstrate mastery of these critical skills. Content variable. May be repeated for credit

Credits: 3