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Submitted by simonsc on Tue, 08/28/2007 - 1:14pm.
Using contemporary Middle East literature as a framework, we will examine topics applicable to world literature in general. Specifically, we will explore:
This mostly online class will meet twice: 1) week one for orientation, seminar and workshop on how to use the online program for the course, and 2) evaluation week for student presentations and to debrief the community online learning experience. The evaluation week class session is in lieu of final conferences. Attendance at the first and last class sessions are required. The rest of the course will be conducted interactively online with students working in small groups and with faculty. Students are also encouraged to meet every week or two in person for student-facilitated seminars (faculty will be in Jordan, but will work regularly online with students, and will meet with students at Evergreen the first and last class sessions of fall quarter). This course meets the world literature endorsement requirement for the Master in Teaching program.
Texts will include Cities of Salt, Abdelrahman Munif. Vintage, 1989; My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk. Vintage, 2002; Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran, Fatemah Keshavarz. University of North Carolina Press, 2007; and assorted online articles.
A written proposal of a final project must be approved by faculty prior to the first week of the quarter. A meeting with faculty is also required before the start of fall quarter, and is scheduled for 3 p.m. Wed., Sept. 19 in Sem II B 3117. To meet course requirements or to schedule an alternate meeting time, please e-mail a paragraph description to simonsc@evergreen.edu of a potential final project (curriculum unit or annotated bibliography, for example) on a particular theme, author, geographic region or country and/or timeframe within the Middle East.
- How to read literature of a culture other than one's own
- "Insider" vs. "outsider" interpretations of culture
- Issues of (mis)translation and accessibility
- Politics of selecting Nobel Prize winning authors
- Dominant themes of Middle East literature, such as political and cultural dissent, globalization, and class, gender and religious identities.
This mostly online class will meet twice: 1) week one for orientation, seminar and workshop on how to use the online program for the course, and 2) evaluation week for student presentations and to debrief the community online learning experience. The evaluation week class session is in lieu of final conferences. Attendance at the first and last class sessions are required. The rest of the course will be conducted interactively online with students working in small groups and with faculty. Students are also encouraged to meet every week or two in person for student-facilitated seminars (faculty will be in Jordan, but will work regularly online with students, and will meet with students at Evergreen the first and last class sessions of fall quarter). This course meets the world literature endorsement requirement for the Master in Teaching program.
Texts will include Cities of Salt, Abdelrahman Munif. Vintage, 1989; My Name is Red, Orhan Pamuk. Vintage, 2002; Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran, Fatemah Keshavarz. University of North Carolina Press, 2007; and assorted online articles.
A written proposal of a final project must be approved by faculty prior to the first week of the quarter. A meeting with faculty is also required before the start of fall quarter, and is scheduled for 3 p.m. Wed., Sept. 19 in Sem II B 3117. To meet course requirements or to schedule an alternate meeting time, please e-mail a paragraph description to simonsc@evergreen.edu of a potential final project (curriculum unit or annotated bibliography, for example) on a particular theme, author, geographic region or country and/or timeframe within the Middle East.
