College Station Isd Education Foundation

College Station Isd Education Foundation Mostly, though, we will be discussing our own stuff---- original stories or sketches for stories, or various plot, character, or setting exercises. We'll write maybe five or six stories, which is a fair amount of work, although to save time I'm hoping we can keep any analysis or interpretation to a strict minimum. This course will explore Asian American writings that have pushed formal boundaries in the past 100+ years, with a particular focus on avant-garde writers working today. early modern periods, starting with Beowulf and ending with Shakespeare's equally bloody Titus Andronicus. Other readings will include selections from The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, sonnets by Sidney and Donne, and Marlowe's The Jew of Malta. Readings include works by Tómas Rivera, Cristina García, Cristy C. Road, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Junot Díaz, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and more. master with a unique theatrical style, and will study that iconic artist's particular method or approach. Each student will conclude their exploration by writing a script and presenting the essence of their research in a brief performance -- portraying the legendary icon at work, in a social situation, or in solitude. You learn more about others when you become them, if only for a moment. though from time to time we might look at the odd piece of professional work, by way of example or inspiration, or as a source for stolen goods. are addressed, teased, pleaded with, embarrassed, flattered, made fun of, praised, chided, solicited, warned, reminded, rebuked, asked for sympathy, and--always--closely watched. In this tutorial course, we will explore the narrative and rhetorical strategies two of the century's greatest novelists use in creating, shaping, and finally educating their readers. with theoretical essays by philosophers and aestheticians from the silent era through the 1970s. We will study films by such directors as Wiene, Murnau, Lang, Eisenstein, Vertov, Dreyer, Renoir, Riefenstahl, Rossellini, Fellini, Truffaut, Godard, Varda, Herzog, Bergman, Tarkovsky, and Almodóvar. We will explore a number of readings across different genres . We will consider--much more briefly--Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Emphasis will be placed on developing skills not only in reading and interpretation, but also in constructing critical arguments and responding to them in written and oral critiques. We next will use Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets to examine how this great intelligence assessed writers from the Renaissance through the eighteenth century. significance of water in diasporic literature--how it endures, how it has diminished, how it slips away from us. This makes the sonnet, deeply personal though it is, also a kind of pocket-sized literary tradition, as each new generation of poets extends, disrupts, and comments upon the whole history of sonnets. Similarly, while the sonnet is founded in strong feeling, it is also obsessed with logic, delighting in logical argumentation, contradictions and paradoxes. We will ask what it meant to read--and misread--before books were commonplace. the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. If in-person meetings become no longer feasible, all meetings will be remote. In this course, students will examine what the South means to American concepts and how the South is used to make meaning in literature, music, art, digital archives, and film. We will give particular attention to how representations of the South are informed by region, gender, sexuality, and class. At the end of the course, students will be able to identify Black southern aesthetics across various genres and mediums with attention to historical and regional specificity despite the opacity of these categories. For the first time, American writers were broadly the equal or more of their European counterparts. human interactions with the natural world, for instance, or the spiritual significance of our inner lives, or the terrors and exhilaration of political and social activism. Romantic writing is durably relevant and, frequently, durably and interestingly weird. We will read a lot of poetry, and paintings and other examples of Romantic expressive culture will comprise a significant part of the course materials. Students will endeavor to understand how each author defines Latinidad. What characterizes Latina/os for each of these writers and how do their works articulate the historical conditions out of which they emerge? How is Latina/o literature marked by notions of language, nationality, gender, sexuality, class, race, politics, form, and genre? The readings will provide both a survey of general ideas in the study of Latina/o literatures as well as specific case studies and historical examples from which we will extrapolate about the larger field. Black diaspora theory was revolutionized by Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic, which urged us to consider more deeply the role of the ship, the routes, and the roots entailed in the formation of diasporic consciousness. Primary texts will include The Big Sea by Langston Hughes, Sugar and Slate by Charlotte Williams, Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, and more. This course will be structured as a seminar/tutorial hybrid. We'll mix whole-group meetings with small group sessions of 3 or 4 students. If possible, those who are able will meet in-person; others will meet remotely.