ENGL 132
Culture and Imperialism
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B, 10C. Exploration of relationship between culture and imperialism through lens of literary texts to raise questions about what study of empire tells about relationship between power and knowledge. Discussion of shifting patterns and paradigms of imperial rule, including way both metropolitan and peripheral or colonial spaces were transformed. Emphasis may be on particular historical period or may adopt thematic approach, such as Orientalism. Topics may include construction of gender, race, otherness, nature, religion, and nation. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Winter 2024 - This class was very boring. Every session consisted of sitting there and watching the professor read off of a slideshow, which was always at least 70% quotes from whatever book we had to read that week. The works we read were interesting, but I did not feel like I gained any further understanding of them during the lectures. This class is also based on discussion, so there were a lot of pauses and awkward silences when the professor asked a question and no one would answer. There are three written assignments (2 short papers and an annotated bibliography that's graded on completion) and a "fishbowl" presentation where you group up with a couple of people and talk about an assigned book in front of the class. These are the only times when I felt like I was conscious. Oh, and if you miss a class, you have to write a three-page paper to make up for it.
Winter 2024 - This class was very boring. Every session consisted of sitting there and watching the professor read off of a slideshow, which was always at least 70% quotes from whatever book we had to read that week. The works we read were interesting, but I did not feel like I gained any further understanding of them during the lectures. This class is also based on discussion, so there were a lot of pauses and awkward silences when the professor asked a question and no one would answer. There are three written assignments (2 short papers and an annotated bibliography that's graded on completion) and a "fishbowl" presentation where you group up with a couple of people and talk about an assigned book in front of the class. These are the only times when I felt like I was conscious. Oh, and if you miss a class, you have to write a three-page paper to make up for it.
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