Firstbridge courses are offered to degree seeking freshmen and registration is done via webform in pre-arrival checklist.
Term:
Fall 2021
Discipline:
CL (Comparative Literature)
Credits:
4 credits
Type:
CCI
Level:
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?:
No
Exam Date:
Monday, December 20, 2021 - 16:00
Pre-requisites:
None
Co-requisites:
None
Professor(s)
Notes
How are heroes and villains explored in literary and popular culture? This course will see students explore, discuss and analyse a series of depictions of heroic and villainous behaviour drawn from novels, poems, and essays but also from comic books, TV series, journalism, pop music and computer games. We’ll also consider the different experiences, and the implicit politics, of reading, playing, immersing in, interacting and working with this material.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will read, and think critically about, a representative sample of modern and contemporary texts including novels, short stories, poems, essays, comic books, TV series and computer games
- Students will reflect critically on their own reading habits and consider the implicit ethical and political challenges of different forms of reading, writing, viewing and playing
- Students will respond critically via a range of writing-led assignments that require the development of clear arguments informed by primary and secondary source research – these will include essays, creative pieces and digital projects
- Aesthetic Inquiry and Creative Expression: Students will engage with artistic or creative objects (e.g., visual art, theatrical works, film) in different media and from a range of cultural traditions (CCI LO2)
- Civic and Ethical Engagement: Students will demonstrate awareness of ethical considerations relating to specific societal problems, values, or practices (historical or contemporary; global or local) and learn to articulate possible solutions to prominent challenges facing societies and institutions today so as to become engaged actors at various levels in our interconnected world (CCI LO4)
- Information Literacy: Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field.
- Life at University: Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context.
Syllabus
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Book List
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN Number |
|---|---|---|---|
FRANKENSTEIN (PLC) | SHELLEY, M. | PENGUIN | 9780141439471 |
DRACULA | STOKER | PENGUIN | 9780141439846 |
WATCHMEN – GRAPHIC NOVEL | MOORE, ALAN | DC COMICS | 9781401248192 |
Schedule
Start Date:
Monday, September 6, 2021
End Date:
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
| Day | Start Time | End Time | Room |
|---|---|---|---|
Monday | 10:35 | 11:55 | Q-604 |
Thursday | 10:35 | 11:55 | Q-604 |