SPECIAL & FIRST RUN COURSES

English 760 - American Social Protest

Offered by Dr. Loranger Winter Quarter, 1997, this coursewill focus

on proletarian literature circa 1929-1940, works oftenignored in surveys of

20th century American literature because their overt expressionof class

ideology placed them at odds with the "apolitical,"individualist aesthetic

being developed and promulgated (for their own ideologicalreasons) by the

prominent, conservative intellectuals of New Criticismand the anti-

communist New York Intellectuals. The class will considerproletarian fiction,

drama, poetry and reportage in the contexts of depression-eraU.S. culture;

divergent aesthetics proposed by American Trotskyites,the CPUSA, and the

New Critics; and raging debates among the American leftabout the

intersection of gender and race with class.

WORK: 1 short provocative paper, 2 very short responsesto provocations,

newsgroup, group on-line bio-bib, final paper (approx15 pp). Incidentals:

feisty, regular participation.

Humanities 791 - Electronic Scholarship

Dr. Welty will offer this course Spring Quarter, 1997.A general introduc-

tion to the World Wide Web and HTML editing will be highlighted.Students will

be given tasks designed especially for this course.