Course Info: CSI-0282
Course | CSI-0282 Defamiliarizing the "East" |
Long Title | Defamiliarizing the "East:" Writing the Unseen |
Term | 2018F |
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Textbook information |
Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 4 on W from 1:00-3:50 |
Faculty | Kimberly ChangüUzma Aslam Khan |
Capacity | 25 |
Available | 16 |
Waitlist | 0 |
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Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
Additional Info | Students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. |
Description | The critic David Lodge describes defamiliarization as "overcoming the deadening effects of habit by representing familiar things in unfamiliar ways." Our focus was on re-perceiving the East, asking what it is, how we see it, how we do not see it, how we could see it, all in the hopes of more closely, critically, and compassionately developing different habits about where and how to look. Not deadening habits: living habits. Course requirements included reading international fiction and non-fiction; in-class presentations; critical response papers; creative writing; and keeping a regular "sensory journal" in which individual, cultural, and/or universal habits are re-examined (e.g., on dress, foods, music, war.) and periodically shared with the class. Bringing supplementary materials to the class (e.g., an article that made you rethink a comfortable position on the 'other') was strongly encouraged. |