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ENGL 2123-02: S
TUDIES IN
L
ITERARY
T
RADITIONS
& T
HEMES
— G
HOSTS
, G
HOULS
, & G
RITS
S
YLLABUS
& C
OURSE
P
OLICIES
, S
PRING
2022
I
NSTRUCTOR
: A
LISON
G
RIFA
I
SMAILI
C
LASS
: MWF 9:30-10:20
IN
A
LLEN
H
ALL
, R
OOM
23
O
FFICE
: Allen Hall, 232A O
FFICE
H
OURS
: MWF: 11:30-12:30
VIA
Z
OOM
,
AND BY APPT
.
E
MAIL
: [email protected]
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This is a humanities-based general education course designed to encompass a large swath of world literature
from our earliest civilizations to our current days. Through fiction, poetry, film, and drama, we will examine
the tradition of ghostly storytelling, and we will analyze how such stories have evolved over the course
of human history and geography. From ancient Babylon, through Gothic Europe, to the sprawling
metropolises of West Africa, the islands of the Caribbean, the haunted houses of Latin America and East
Asia, all the way to our present-day U.S. and our own peculiar Baton Rouge, we will encounter and follow
different kinds of ghosts and ghouls. Why do we follow them so? What is the purpose of these stories, and
why do they persist over the ages? How do authors utilize their ghostly characters? What do the ghosts know
that we don’t? How do they help us and harm us as we make our way through this complicated world?
LEARNING OUTCOMES
General Education courses in the humanities area provide students with an understanding of their own
cultural traditions and those of other cultures, locally, nationally, and internationally; lead students to reflect
on fundamental questions that human beings have faced, whatever their diverse backgrounds and cultures;
and introduce students to the humanities disciplines, such as literature, history, philosophy, religious studies,
and language.
Integrative learning allows students to make simple connections among ideas and experiences and
across disciplines and perspectives. The LSU Integrative Learning Core (ILC) curriculum is designed
to develop student abilities to transfer their learning to new situations, and demonstrate a sense of
self as a learner. A fundamental goal of the ILC is to foster students’ practical and intellectual
capacities associated with integrative learning in preparation for high competence and functionality
in their post-baccalaureate careers. This course fulfills the BOR Area of Humanities and provides
students experience with the ILC proficiency of Written Communication.
G
ENERAL
E
DUCATION
L
EARNING
O
BJECTIVES
:
• Objective 1 : An LSU graduate will demonstrate effective communication of complex knowledge and ideas
through written, oral, visual, and technological media.
• Objective 2 : An LSU graduate will demonstrate an understanding of the historical, cultural, and
philosophical complexity that supports sophisticated discourse.
COURSE MATERIALS
(ALL
ARE REQUIRED
):
✓ The Epic of Gilgamesh
✓ The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
✓ The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley
Jackson
✓ Beloved, Toni Morrison
✓ Water by the Spoonful, Quiara Alegría
Hudes
✓ Handouts and story excerpts available on
Moodle