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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 30844
Online: Some Synchronous | Lecture
Online
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Literature/Writing
2020 Core Requirements Met:
Integ/Humanities
Other Requirements Met:
CommGood/Changemaking
Writing Intensive
Many fans, critics, and creators agree that we are living in a Golden Age of Horror. From dark or weird fiction by Gwendolyn Kiste and Helen Oyeyemi to horror films with a social justice agenda, such as GET OUT (Jordan Peele, 2017) and PARASITE (Bong Joon-ho 2019), the genre is proving to be finely crafted and character-driven. In this course, the horror genre will be explored historically and psychologically. What frightens you? Jump scares? Gore? An invisible enemy? Horror explores the human condition through the emotion of fear—fear of pain, disease, isolation, of being lost, consumed, or prey to supernatural forces. However, horror also teaches us how to handle those fears. We will survey horror from early tales like BLUEBEARD to Gothic classics by Poe, Stoker, and Stevenson in the nineteenth century, then shift to German Expressionist films, horror heavy hitters like Stephen King and Ramsey Campbell, and American slasher films. We will conclude with recent trends in horror fiction and film by Carmen Maria Machado, Asa Nonami, and Ana Lily Amirpour. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. This course satisfies the WAC Writing Intensive requirement and an Integration in the Humanities requirement. Please note that ENGL 201 is non-repeatable; students wishing to take a second 200-level Texts in Conversation course will need to register for ENGL 202, 203, or 204. Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or 190.
4 Credits