Spring 2025 English UN3892 section 001

BEOWULF

Call Number 14813
Day & Time
Location
M 4:10pm-6:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor David M Yerkes
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

This course will primarily consist in the task of translating the remarkably challenging poem Beowulf.  We will be reading (smaller) portions of the vast quantity of secondary texts as we negotiate and debate issues raised by our readings and contemporary scholarship.  As we work through the language of the text, comparing translations with our own, we will also be tracking concepts. Each student will be using our communal site (location tbd) for posting translations as well as for starting individual projects on word clusters / concepts.

Web Site Vergil
Department English and Comparative Literature
Enrollment 9 students (18 max) as of 9:14PM Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Subject English
Number UN3892
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Open To Barnard College, Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, Global Programs, General Studies
Section key 20251ENGL3892W001