ENGL 4920 - Honors Seminar II
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Enrollment limited to: students in the Honors Program in English or related fields, or by permission of instructor.
L. Brown, G. Londe.
The purpose of the Honors Seminar is to acquaint students with methods of study and research to help them write their senior Honors Essay. However, all interested students are welcome to enroll. The seminar will require a substantial essay that incorporates literary evidence and critical material effectively, and develops an argument. Topics and instructors vary each semester.
Seminar 101: Time and Place in the Long Poem
Seminar 102: Petkeeping and Literature
This course examines the culture of animal companionship from the perspectives of literature, history, and philosophy, and in the context of recent approaches to the human relation to the natural world. Moving from literary critical questions about the representation of animals to discussions of the social and moral dimensions of petkeeping and the ethics of animal rights, the course will connect the animals of literary culture with the “real” animals of natural history, social history, and religious debate. Readings will include works by William Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, Jack London, Paul Auster, Albert Payson Terhune, and J. M. Coetzee.
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