2024 Summer Session D
6 weeks, July 1 - August 9
CELTIC R1B 002 - LEC 002
Voices of the Celtic World
Hallucinations
Zachary Samuel Johnson
Class #:14727
Units: 4
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Celtic Studies
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
6
Enrolled: 11
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 17
Waitlist Max: 3
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
7.5 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, and 23 hours of outside work hours per week.
Course Catalog Description
Reading and composition course based on works of Celtic writers both in English and in translations from Celtic languages. In addition to training in textual analysis and descriptive and argumentative writing, the courses will discuss the notion of Celtic "voices": distinctive modes of cultural expression chosen by important authors from a Celtic milieu. Readings will be chosen from a variety of modern Irish, Welsh, highland Scots, and Breton writers. R1A satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement, and R1B satisfies the second half.
Class Description
Trips, visions, psychedelic experiences: this course will trace the theme of hallucinations through literature from the 19th to 21st century, with some diversions into film, the visual arts, and music. Beginning with early attempts by writers and ending with hallucinations in recent film and literature, this course will focus on a broad treatment of the issue, including novels influenced by schizophrenic experience, works inspired by experiences under the influence of drugs, hippies and other countercultural figures, dreams, spiritual and religious visions, and more. We will look at contemporary discussions of the topic, including science on altered states of mind, philosophical essays, and real first-hand accounts. Students will be encouraged to explore their own interests in the topic, and the culmination of the course will be a research paper due at the end of the course.
Required Texts:
Course Reader available at Metro Publishing
Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends, New York: Hogarth, 1997
Class Notes
This course satisfies the second half or the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the “A” portion of the Reading & Composition requirement or its equivalent. Students may not enroll in nor attend R1B/R5B courses without completin.. show more
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the “A” portion of the Reading & Composition requirement or its equivalent. Students may not enroll in nor attend R1B/R5B courses without completin.. show more
This course satisfies the second half or the “B” portion of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the “A” portion of the Reading & Composition requirement or its equivalent. Students may not enroll in nor attend R1B/R5B courses without completing this prerequisite.
Although very few courses are canceled, Berkeley Summer Sessions reserves the right to cancel a course if it does not reach minimum enrollments 4 weeks before the start of the session. In the case of a course cancellation, all enrolled students are notified by email, dropped from the class, and no longer charged for the class. See summer.berkeley.edu for all enrollment and fee policies. show less
Prerequisite: Successful completion of the “A” portion of the Reading & Composition requirement or its equivalent. Students may not enroll in nor attend R1B/R5B courses without completing this prerequisite.
Although very few courses are canceled, Berkeley Summer Sessions reserves the right to cancel a course if it does not reach minimum enrollments 4 weeks before the start of the session. In the case of a course cancellation, all enrolled students are notified by email, dropped from the class, and no longer charged for the class. See summer.berkeley.edu for all enrollment and fee policies. show less
Rules & Requirements
Requisites
- Previously passed an R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Previously passed an articulated R_A course with a letter grade of C- or better. Score a 4 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Literature. Score a 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement Exam in English Language and Composition. Score of 5, 6, or 7 on the International Baccalaureate Higher Level Examination in English.
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Requirements class fulfills
Second half of the Reading and Composition Requirement
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
Associated Sections
None