ENGL 122
Keywords in Theory: Culture
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 10A, 10B, and 10C, or 11 and 87. Recommended: courses 120, 121. Taking its model from Raymond Williams' classic vocabulary of culture and society, investigation of fundamental theoretical concepts, or keywords, that have emerged from variety of intellectual disciplines to shape literary and cultural studies. Consideration of lexical development of such keywords; how they alter and enrich assumptions about textuality, readers, and authorship; and how they engender interpretive paradigms and methodologies for study of literature and culture. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 5.0
Units: 5.0
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Spring 2020 - Absolutely the most difficult class I've taken at UCLA. I love lofty thinking and learning about abstract theories/ideas, but for an undergraduate student taking a class online during COVID, it was way too much. I appreciate Dimuro's attempt to make us broaden our horizons and think about literature in new ways, but he's the type of professor to always ask for more and never truly explain the reading. The class would have been received better if he was less critical of students trying to wrap their head around new ideas.
Spring 2020 - Absolutely the most difficult class I've taken at UCLA. I love lofty thinking and learning about abstract theories/ideas, but for an undergraduate student taking a class online during COVID, it was way too much. I appreciate Dimuro's attempt to make us broaden our horizons and think about literature in new ways, but he's the type of professor to always ask for more and never truly explain the reading. The class would have been received better if he was less critical of students trying to wrap their head around new ideas.
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