2025 Fall
ENGLISH 100 009 - SEM 009
The Seminar on Criticism
Cultural Theory
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
18
Enrolled: 0
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 18
Waitlist Max: 5
Open Reserved Seats:
1 unreserved seats
8 reserved for Students with 3 or more Terms in Attendance
1 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission
8 reserved for New Letters & Sciences Transfer Students
Hours & Workload
3 hours of student-instructor coverage of course materials per week, and 9 hours of outside work hours per week.
Other classes by Bryan Wagner
Course Catalog Description
This seminar is designed to provide English majors with intensive and closely supervised work in critical reading and writing. Although sections of the course may address any literary question, period, or genre, they all provide an introduction to critical and methodological problems in literary studies.
Class Description
This course introduces foundational works in the theory of culture. We will be thinking together about language, myth, history, authorship, reception, performance, ethnography, persuasion, sensation, recognition, and other matters. Coursework includes four group presentations as well as a midterm and final exam.
Class Notes
Book List:
We will be reading shorter works by writers including Matthew Arnold, Edward Tylor, W. E. B. Du Bois, Franz Boas, T. S. Eliot, Margaret Mead, Walter Benjamin, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Simone de Beauvoir, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Raymond .. show more
We will be reading shorter works by writers including Matthew Arnold, Edward Tylor, W. E. B. Du Bois, Franz Boas, T. S. Eliot, Margaret Mead, Walter Benjamin, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Simone de Beauvoir, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Raymond .. show more
Book List:
We will be reading shorter works by writers including Matthew Arnold, Edward Tylor, W. E. B. Du Bois, Franz Boas, T. S. Eliot, Margaret Mead, Walter Benjamin, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Simone de Beauvoir, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Carlo Ginzburg, Clifford Geertz, Renato Rosaldo, James Clifford, Michel Rolph-Trouillot, Arjun Appadurai, and Saidiya Hartman. show less
We will be reading shorter works by writers including Matthew Arnold, Edward Tylor, W. E. B. Du Bois, Franz Boas, T. S. Eliot, Margaret Mead, Walter Benjamin, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Simone de Beauvoir, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, Carlo Ginzburg, Clifford Geertz, Renato Rosaldo, James Clifford, Michel Rolph-Trouillot, Arjun Appadurai, and Saidiya Hartman. show less
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Requirements class fulfills
Meets Arts & Literature, L&S Breadth
Reserved Seats
Reserved Seating For This Term
Current Enrollment
Open Reserved Seats:
1 unreserved seats
8 reserved for Students with 3 or more Terms in Attendance
1 reserved for Students with Enrollment Permission
8 reserved for New Letters & Sciences Transfer Students
Terms in Attendance:
Undergraduate Classifications Information
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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Associated Sections
None