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EN 617 Advanced Poetry Workshop (Spring: 3) Admission by writing sample. Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop is for students who have had some experience with creative writing and who want an intensive and demanding writing atmosphere for further development. The course puts an emphasis on aspects of craft (including work in form and meter) and revision. Suzanne Matson EN 620 Seminar: Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Fall: 3) Fulfills the pre-1700 requirement. This course will look at a variety of plays written for the Elizabethan and Jacobean stage, spanning the time before, during, and after Shakespeare was writing his plays. The course will include two plays by Shakespeare as well as by Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and others. We will read some historical works in order to learn more about the culture in which the plays were written and performed, and also some critical essays. Mary Crane EN 626 Seminar: Studies in American Culture (Fall: 3) This seminar will focus on transnational American Studies. The United States is, and also has been, intimately bound up with other parts of the world. We will explore a variety of texts (literature, non-fiction, movies) and conceptual models that encourage us to think critically about those connections. Topics to be discussed may include: immigration, diaspora, contact zones, and globalization. Christina Klein EN 627 Capstone: Ways of Knowing (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with UN 513 See course description in the University Courses Department. Carol Hurd Green EN 628 Capstone: Five Heroic Americans (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with UN 531 This course will examine the writings of two American women and three American men whose intellectual and spiritual gifts have enriched our heritage. Participants will read and relfect upon Thoreaus Journals, poems by Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost, essays by Emerson and selections from Mary Rowlandsons account of her capture by the Quabog Indians. Students will discuss their observations in light of the four concerns of the Capstone program: relationships, work, civic responsibility and spirituality. Robert Farrell, S.J. EN 630 Capstone: Passages (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with UN 538 In our passages through this enigmatic world we reflect on the vision of St. Theresa of Avila, All things pass; only God remains. Life embraces us in paradox. Through novel, poetry, short story and essay the many writers considered in this Capstone, including Ann Tyler, Willa Cather, Judith Guest, Marcus Aurelius, Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost, will share their insights with us and help us to appreciate the Capstone ideals of wholesome relationships, generous citizenship, spiritual development and joy in work. Robert Farrell, S.J. EN 637 Capstone: The Vision Quest: A Multicultural Approach to Self-Discovery (Spring: 3) Cross Listed with UN 544 Satisfies Cultural Diversity Core Requirement We will use the Vision Quest, a Native American ritual for finding oneself, as a metaphor for four years at Boston College. Relating their own lives to the lives of the characters, who have all gone on some variation of a quest, students will explore ways their education and experiences at college have prepared them to face the great mystery of life ahead. The main texts include: The Grass Dancer, The Life of Pi, Go Tell It On the Mountain, The Bonesetters Daughter, and How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents,and films Thunderheart and The Whale Rider. Dorothy Miller EN 639 Seminar: Victorian Poetry and Cultural Criticism (Spring: 3) We will investigate the Christian positions in Victorian Britain Catholic, Anglican, and Evangelical and their roles in poetry and cultural polemic. During the course of the century, conventional piety was undermined by the Higher Criticism, the New Geology, Evolutionary theory, and various aesthetic belief-systems. We will trace the course of anxiety about faith and culture in the work of Tennyson, Arnold, Christina Rossetti, Ruskin, Newman, Hopkins, Isaac Williams, Annie Besant, the Brownings, Keble, Pater, and other authors. James Najarian EN 646 Capstone: Journeys Mapping the Interior (Fall/Spring: 3) Cross Listed with UN 546 Coming at a time when you find yourself at a crossroads, a significant juncture where the challenge of choosing a future direction faces you, this Capstone course offers a brief pause, a calm, still space where you may sort through the complex and often contradictory aspects of your lives. Weaving among your educational experiences, relationships, as well as the various communities of which you have been a part, we will explore questions of personal meaning and purpose as we move toward understanding how our personal values might most happily intersect with our engagement with the work of the world. Connie Griffin EN 648 Seminar: Self and Other (Fall: 3) Cross Listed with BK648 This course addresses the fundamental issue at the heart of every structure of domination and subordination: violence and power. We will examine the nature and meaning of human violence as a process that fundamentally dehumanizes the other. Our question is: how is the human/animal distinction, which is founded in language, ultimately constitutive of a grey zone that we call inhuman? We will focus on classes of the not-quite humansuch as feral children, circus freaks, the autistic and mentally ill, the enslaved, and animals inhuman spectacles that secure the identity of the fully human. Kalpana Rahita Seshadri EN 653 Seminar: Queer Literary Traditions (Fall: 3) For many writers, philosophers, and theorists, to confront the question of literary and cultural tradition is to engage a paradoxical object, one that is inherited through repeated scenes of its failed or thwarted transmission. This course will examine the queer allure of such scenes, suggesting, among many other things, the possibility of understanding thwarted transmission as synonymous with the literary tradition as such and, hence, of bringing into view the queerness of that tra- 116 The Boston College Catalog 2006-2007 ARTS AND SCIENCES

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