WRITING AND ECONOMIC IMAGINATION in Fall 2024 (CL1099FB6)

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Course Master: 
FIRSTBRIDGE IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (CL1099)
Term: 
Fall 2024
Discipline: 
CL (Comparative Literature)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Exam Date: 
Thursday, December 12, 2024 - 12:30
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Notes

The world of literature is often opposed to the world of economics, stressing imagination rather than reality, beauty rather than cost, subjective rather than objective realities. In this course, we will consider why it might be useful to challenge this opposition. Many great works of literature address the same themes and topics as economics – the place of money in our world, the experience of debt, the forces that organize our desires and constrain our freedoms. Economic texts – even when they are full of mathematics – tell stories and use images and metaphors. We will read foundational texts of economics (including work by Adam Smith and Karl Marx) alongside key literary texts from the past and the present in order to enrich and expand our understanding of historical and contemporary individual and social experience.


Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field. (FB LO1)
  2. Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context. (FB LO2)
  3. Students will show the capacity to read literary texts closely and with imagination, and to consider the relation between literary texts and economic contexts.
  4. Students will consider the relation between critical and creative practices.
  5. Students will engage with artistic or creative objects (eg visual art, theatrical works, film) in different media and from a range of cultural traditions. (CCI LO2)
  6. Students will demonstrate awareness of ethical considerations relating to specific societal problems, values or practices (whether historical or contemporary, global or local) and learn to articulate possible solutions to prominent challenges facing societies and institutions today so as to become an engaged actor across various levels of our interconnected world. (CCI LO4)

Syllabus

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Book List

TitleAuthorPublisherISBN Number
Standing Heavy
Gauz'
maclehose Press
9781529414431
The Assommoir
Zola
Oxford
9780198828563
The Kill
Zola
Oxford
9780199536924

Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, September 2, 2024
End Date: 
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Monday
13:45
15:05
G-002
Thursday
13:45
15:05
G-002