Course Info: CS-0269
| Course | CS-0269 Endangered/Sustained Narrative |
| Long Title | Endangered and Sustained Narratives |
| Term | 2019S |
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Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 108 on T,TH from 2:30-3:50 |
| Faculty | Daniel AltshulerüPolina Barskova |
| Capacity | 40 |
| Available | 21 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| 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 explored how narratives live and die; how society can endanger them and bring them to fruition; how various environments, social and natural, influence production of language and narrative. Among these environments, we looked at writing in and about prison, concentration camps and environmental disaster, with special attention dedicated to the topics of censorship and language death, which we treated as political and social environments of their own kind. We asked questions like: (1) Why are narratives censored and why are so many languages dying? Who has a say in the matter and what can be done? (2) How does a censored narrative/dead language become uncensored/revitalized? Why is it often labeled "classic"/"exotic" by virtue of being found/revitalized? (3) Can and should we find extinct narratives/languages? (4) How and why does a human create narratives while knowing it will likely be censored and extinct? |