Discovering Others II

Tama campus, autumn, Friday, 1:20~2:50

This seminar is intended as a continuation of Discovering Others I. Accordingly, new students will be asked to work with returning students to ensure understanding of material covered in the earlier seminar, particularly the theoretical issues that grew from discussion of Edward Said’s Orientalism. Beyond this, students will become acquainted with influential contemporary understandings of culture and cultural theory as manifest in selected readings largely drawn from Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan, Literary Theory: An Anthology, 2nd edition, 2004.

The minimum requirements are attentive presence at all class meetings and timely completion of assignments. Assuming these basics, the percentages for determining grades will be as follows: