Instructor:
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Dr.
Christopher Wielgos,
Professor of English
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Office:
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DL-218-N
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Phone:
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815-836-5873
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Office Hours:
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Mondays
1:30-4:30, and by appointment
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E-mail:
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wielgoch@lewisu.edu
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Credit Hours & Prereq:
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3
For Majors and Minors
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Twitter:
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@Dr. Wielgos
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DESCRIPTION & INTRODUCTION
Catalog
Description: ENGL-46000 Senior Seminar in English Studies
In
this senior capstone seminar, majors apply and synthesize their previous
learning in English Studies and literary and writing theory, conduct new
research, and create knowledge by significantly re-visioning text(s) from a
previous course in the major in order to develop a multimodal composition
informed by the seminar topic, with an eye toward publication and/or career
success. Students are required to submit an abstract for the University's
Celebration of Scholarship or other academic conferences. Seminar topics will
vary.
Upon completion of this
course, students will accomplish these goals as we will investigate the convergence of
cultures in the digitalization of English Studies and humanities disciplines both inside and outside of the academy by the
ongoing revolution in information and communication technologies (ICT).
ICT present exciting opportunities as well as daunting challenges to virtually every profession, and have facilitated a paradigm shift in the centuries-old institution of the University. On the one hand, many of the ICT that are redefining how we generate, access, interact and communicate with people, ideas and information are developed by or in cooperation with scientists, engineers and technologists working in universities and colleges. On the other hand, many faculty in the arts and humanities have been slow to acknowledge the importance and potential of new ICTs to our work as scholars and to our students as learners. Upon administrators, librarians, and support staff falls the task of financing, implementing, maintaining and explaining wave after wave of infrastructure overhauls and software upgrades.
People still read books and watch movies, but these activities have less and less to do with the printing press and the multiplex. As consumers turn to Android, iPhones, and streaming services like Netflix and Hulu, these choices may seem completely separate from what’s happening in higher education, but consider who researches, teaches and studies culture.
Core disciplines within the Humanities, and in English departments most specifically – e.g.., literature, composition, creative writing, film studies – define themselves in relation to mediums that appear to be obsolescing.
Humanities disciplines need to evaluate and redesign themselves in order to engage rapidly transforming cultural practices, but such an overhaul requires considerable financial support at a moment when institutional resources at most colleges and universities are extremely scarce. Populist opposition to ‘liberal elites’ from the right and the push to prioritize science and math from the left make it that much harder to convince parents, administrators, and trustees that the Humanities are a good investment, even though employers for the last decade have
been desperate for employees who possess the very skills that humanities
majors, especially English majors, possess upon graduation.
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