| Class |
19646 ENGL 5500 - 001 (SEM)
Special Topics in English Literature |
| Topic |
Stories of Teaching |
| Instructor |
James Seitz |
| Meetings |
| James Seitz | MoWe 5:00pm - 6:15pm | |
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| Other SIS Info |
| Enrollment: (Show Graph) |
12 students (capacity 15) |
| Status: |
Open, Waitlist Available When Full |
| Units: |
3 |
| Meeting Dates: |
08/26/2025 - 12/09/2025 |
| Class Components: |
Seminar Required |
| Enrollment Requirements: |
None |
| Requirement Designation: |
None |
| Class Attributes: |
None |
| Grading: |
Graded |
| SIS Description: A graduate-level seminar in English literature. Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at https://english.as.virginia.edu. |
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| Class Website |
https://louslist.org/sectiontip.php?Semester=1258&ClassNumber=19646 |
| Class Subtitle |
In Memoir, Fiction, and Film |
| Description |
This course will examine a variety of ways in which teaching has been represented through narrative-—sometimes by teachers and sometimes by students-—in memoir, fiction, and film. We’ll work on sharpening both our resistance to the shortcomings of these narratives and our appreciation of their accomplishments. All narratives of teaching are inevitably partial: nobody can say it all, even when representing a single class, much less when describing what happened during the course of a semester or year. Yet writers do try to portray their experience as a teacher over long as well as brief periods of time, and we can learn from their struggle to do so convincingly. |
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