Course Info: IA-0218
| Course | IA-0218 Dis/placements |
| Long Title | Dis/placements: Transitional Space in Story |
| Term | 2017F |
| Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 2 on TH from 12:30-3:20 |
| Faculty | Uzma Aslam Khan |
| Capacity | 16 |
| Available | 3 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
| Distribution(s) |
Culture, Humanities, and Languages |
| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work |
| Additional Info | In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. This time includes reading, writing, research. |
| Description | This course appeals to fiction writers with a passion for exploring transitions, both chosen and unchosen, as an engine for beautiful expressions of art. It also appeals to those with a passion for understanding how movement is controlled, and who controls it. We look at writers who embrace these themes in many different contexts. For instance, in the context of those who move to escape being profiled for their race, religion, or sexual orientation. Those who are refugees dislocated by wars, colonialism, climate change, and poverty. Those who relocate by choice, say for work or education. The move itself may be from one country to another. It may be from one identity to another, say a religious conversion or a gender expression. It may be from entering a groundbreaking career, or a change in physical ability, or in diet (becoming vegan?). The focus is on critical reading, as well as on creating your own original works of fiction. |