Fall 2010
REPRESENTING ILLNESS
Listed in: English, as ENGL-01
Faculty
Anston L. Bosman (Section 03)
Description
With a focus on the skills of close reading and analytical writing, we will look at the ways in which writers imagine illness, how they try to make meaning out of illness, and how they use illness to explore other aspects of experience. This is not a course on the history of illness or the social construction of disease. We will discuss not only what writers say about illness but also how they say it: with what language and in what form they speak the experience of bodily and mental suffering. Readings may include drama by Sophocles, Molière and Margaret Edson; poetry by Donne and Mark Doty; fiction by José Saramago and Mark Haddon; and essays by Susan Sontag, Raphael Campo and Temple Grandin.
Preference given to first-year students. Limited to 15 students. Fall semester. Professor Bosman.
Course times and locations
ENGL 01 - L/D
Section 03
M 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM CHAP 205
W 08:30 AM - 09:50 AM CHAP 205
Offerings
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2009,
Fall 2010,
Fall 20122024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2007,
Spring 2009,
Spring 20112024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2009,
Spring 2010,
Spring 2011,
Fall 2011,
Spring 2012,
Fall 2012,
Spring 2013,
Fall 2013,
Spring 2014,
Fall 2014,
Spring 2015,
Fall 2015,
Spring 2016,
Fall 2016,
Spring 2017,
Spring 2018,
Fall 2018,
Fall 2019,
Spring 2020,
Fall 2020,
Fall 20212024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2008,
Fall 2009,
Spring 2010,
Fall 2010,
Spring 2011,
Fall 2011,
Spring 2012,
Fall 2012,
Spring 2013,
Fall 2013,
Spring 2014,
Fall 2014,
Spring 2015,
Fall 2015,
Spring 2016,
Fall 2016,
Spring 2017,
Fall 2017,
Spring 2018,
Fall 2018,
Spring 2019,
Spring 2021,
Fall 20212024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2011,
Spring 2012,
Fall 2014,
Fall 20162024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2007,
Fall 2008,
Fall 2009,
Fall 2010,
Fall 2011,
Fall 2012,
Spring 2013,
Fall 20132024-25: Not offered
2024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Spring 2008,
Spring 2010,
Fall 2010,
Fall 2011,
Fall 2014,
Spring 2016,
Fall 2017,
Fall 2019,
Fall 2020,
Spring 20222024-25: Not offered
Other years: Offered in
Fall 2008,
Fall 2009,
Fall 2010