What would be the perfect course that you'd like to take?

[danieleWrites]

Just had some advising and that meant examining course offerings, which lead to my semi-annual daydream of what would be the perfect course my department could offer, and what would constitute the reading list.

 

If your department offered the perfect course for you, what would the title be and what would be in the reading list?

 

For me, at least this semester:

 

Seminar in 20th Century American Literature: Globalization and Capitalism

 

Reading list:

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

What Is the What, Dave Eggers

Tripster Monkey, Maxine Hong Kingston

Starship Troopers, Robert Heinlien

Snow Crash, Neil Stephenson

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway

Hopes and Prospects, Noam Chomsky

Runaway World, Anthony Giddens

plus some critical articles by Terry Eagleton, Chinua Achebe, Suman Gupta, and others.

 

[wreckofthehope]

^ that was essentially my first qualifying exam   (but with loads more books). 

 

(is M. Keith Booker your adviser?)

Edited October 16, 2013 by wreckofthehope

[danieleWrites]

Booker isn't my adviser, Slattery is, though several people seem to think he'd a be a great person to have on my dissertation committee. We apparently geek the same types of things. I have never met him, though I've read his stuff.