ENGL 4910

Last Updated

  • Schedule of Classes - April 13, 2023 2:00PM EDT
  • Course Catalog - April 12, 2023 7:14PM EDT

ENGL 4910
Honors Seminar I

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

The purpose of the Honors Seminar is to acquaint students with methods of study and research to help them write their senior Honors Essay. However, all interested students are welcome to enroll. The seminar will require a substantial essay that incorporates literary evidence and critical material effectively, and develops an argument. Topics and instructors vary each semester. For Fall 2022 the topic is: Inventing Women in Medieval Literature. This topic may be used as one of the pre-1800 courses required of English majors.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: students in the Honors Program in English or related fields.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS)
Satisfies Requirement Either ENGL 4910 or ENGL 4920 is required for students pursuing an honors degree in English.

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi:

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Inventing Women in Medieval Literature

  •  4796 ENGL 4910   SEM 101

  •  

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    How was the category "woman" constituted in the Middle Ages? Not assuming that women were the same then as now, this course, in dialogue with contemporary trans and genderqueer theory, will look at medieval gender in a new light. Considering works by women, like the Book of Margery Kempe, some primary texts about women, like the trial of Joan of Arc, and some scholarship about alternatives to the binary of women and men, like Leah DeVun's recent study The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance, this course will examine "woman" as a constructed category and "The Middle Ages" as one instance of the long work of making involved in issuing women into the common-sense category that they now occupy.