Cross Listing Course Form (4/9/14)
I: Criteria
To qualify for consideration for cross listing, all courses must:
- be requested by both departments or programs;
- count as credit toward an existing major, minor, or certificate program;
- not be experimental or have a reserved variable content course number (x90-X99)
- carry the same title (both parent and sibling courses) and, if possible, carry the same course
number;
- be implemented within comparable course levels, e.g., (U), (UG), or (G);
- be offered under an existing rubric.
Under no circumstances will a course have more than three crosslistings.
II: Summary of courses requested for crosslisting
Requesting Dept / Program (must be
Liberal Studies
department of parent course)
Parent Course Prefix and Number
LSH327L
Sibling Course(s) Prefix (Pre CCN) and
ENLT 327
Number
Course Title
Gender & Sexuality in Twentieth-Century English Fiction
II. Endorsement/Approvals
Complete the form and obtain signatures before submitting to Faculty Senate Office
Please type / print name Signature
Date
Requestor:
Ruth Vanita
5/19/2014
Phone/ email :
ruth.vanita@umontana.edu
Parent Program
Stewart Justman
Chair/Director:
Sibling Program Chair(s) Beverly Chin
/ Director(s)
Elizabeth Hubble
Dean(s):
Christopher Comer
Approve *
 Yes  No
 Yes  No
 Yes  No
 Yes  No
 Yes  No
*Signatory Comments (required for disapproval):
IV. Rationale
Do these courses need to be cross listed to fill an external requirement?
If YES, define external requirement and attach
documentation.
If NO, complete narrative: In 500 words or less explain why only cross-listing this course serves the
need for delivering academic content. You must identify how both the parent and sibling units
contribute to the cross-listed course’s content and how cross listing contributes to the respective
units’ missions of serving students. The narrative must also identify additional reasons for cross
listing such as a specialized need for advertising to prospective students, sharing resources across
departments (equipment, space, instructors, etc.), or mutual contribution to course content.
The Liberal Studies Program is dedicated to the history of ideas: The Liberal Studies Bachelor of Arts
Program offers students the opportunity to work in a combination of disciplines in the humanities,
including literature, philosophy, art, foreign languages, history, and social sciences. The
interdisciplinary coursework … has as its primary focus the study of the cultural records, literary
works and ideas that contribute to our common inheritance. This course examines the history of
ideas about gender and sexuality. These ideas are today at the cutting-edge of work in the
humanities, but they have always been central to literature and art. The novel, as its name indicates,
is a modern genre but it draws on older literary and philosophical traditions. In this course, we read
seminal works of fiction from Lawrence, Joyce and Woolf to South African Nobel-prize winner
Coetzee. Students examine our common inheritance across four continents, studying English fiction
written in England, the US, Africa and India. This course serves as a capstone course for Liberal
Studies majors.
Gender and sexuality studies are today integrated into English literature departments across the country.
English at UM describes its mission thus: The program's aim is to impart to the student an
understanding not only of the aesthetic richness of the literatures that have been written in English
but also of the historical and cultural forces that have contributed to their making. This course is
unique on campus. It introduces students of English to works that they have not encountered before,
such as the feminist classic The Conversations of Cow, and shows them how these works build on
each other to develop layers of aesthetic richness, for example, Isherwood’s A Single Man draws on
Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, as does Coetzee’s novel about ageing in relation to sexuality. We study
historical and cultural forces such as the women’s movement, the world wars, and transnational
migration, as these are represented in modern fiction.
I have taught this course five times and it has always been cross-listed with English and drawn
many English students. It fulfills English upper-division requirements. This year, the English
department designated it their theory course for the year. English students might not be aware of it if it
is listed only as Liberal Studies and not also as LIT.
V. Syllabus
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Spring 2014
Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century English Fiction
LSH 327L LIT 379L-1B WGS 379L-1B
Dr. Vanita
TR 9.40-11.00, LA140
Office: LA 146A Email: ruth.vanita@umontana.edu Mailbox in LA101
Office Hours: Tuesday 8.30-9.30, Thursday 2.00-3.00, and by appointment
Texts (prescribed editions required)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers (1913; Signet Classic)
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (1920; Random House, Modern Library)
Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925; Harvest Books, Harcourt)
James Baldwin, Go Tell it on the Mountain (1952; Dial Press)
Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man (1964; U of Minnesota Press)
6. Suniti Namjoshi, The Conversations of Cow (Course pack, UM bookstore)
7. Coetzee, Disgrace (Penguin)
8. James Joyce, “The Dead” (short story). Photocopies of this will be handed out in class
Goals
To examine how gender and sexuality are represented and explored in major twentieth-century
fiction in English. Themes include: gender roles, power conflicts, gender inequality, friendship,
celibacy, heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexual and transgender existence,
androgyny, religion, animals, experience that is beyond gender. All of these will be examined as
inflected by species, age, race, class, nationality, health, physical appearance, and intellectual
capacity.
This course fulfills requirements for the Liberal Studies major, the English major, and the Women
& Gender Studies option. It is also a capstone course for Liberal Studies majors.
Requirements
This course entails considerable amounts of reading, and also requires upper-level writing skills.
If you feel unable to do the reading, please do not take this class. If you have not yet taken a
lower-division writing class, you are probably not prepared for this class.
Students are required to
(a) attend classes regularly. More than three absences not explained to my satisfaction will result in
halving your grade for attendance and class participation, and five or more absences will result in a
zero for attendance; leaving early or coming late without explanation will be treated as an absence.
Explanations must be backed up with documentation, communicated to me in person and accepted
by me.
(b) keep up with the assigned reading, bring the text to class, and participate in discussion;
(c) bring a thoughtful typed question or comment on the text to every class, use it in discussion,
and hand it to me at the end of class. Attendance may be given on the basis of these questions,
therefore if you are ever unable to hand in a question, it is your responsibility to tell me this and to
have yourself marked present. Handwritten comments will not be accepted as the purpose of these
comments is to ascertain whether you have read the text before class
(d) write two papers (3-5 pages)
(e) take all quizzes, the mid-term and the final exams, and complete any other assignments that may
be given. Quizzes can be made up within the week by contacting me, but not thereafter
(f) Check UM email regularly, especially the day before class. I send out notifications and
changes by email. UM policy forbids me to write to you on any email address other than the UM
one. The best way to communicate with me is by email.
Grades
Class attendance and participation will be worth 15%, typed questions and comments 10%, quizzes
15%, the mid-term exam 20%, the final exam 20% and the two papers 10% each.
Plagiarism or academic dishonesty of any kind, in any assignment, will result in your failing the class and
may also result in other penalties such as expulsion from the University (for further details, refer to the
section on Academic Misconduct in the Student Conduct Code).
Papers and exam essays must (a) address the topic given by me (b) have a clear thesis/argument (c)
support the argument with textual evidence (d) adhere to the conventions of academic writing,
including correct grammar and syntax. Papers must be handed to me on the due date, in class.
Except in the case of proven emergency demonstrated to my satisfaction, papers handed in late,
without prior permission from me, will result in a decreased grade.
Quizzes, tests and exams may contain both multiple-choice type questions and essay-type questions
and are designed to test (a) knowledge of the prescribed texts (b) assimilation of information
communicated in class and plenary lectures (c) writing skills (d) analytical skills.
Except in the case of proven emergency demonstrated to my satisfaction, papers handed in late,
without prior permission from me, will result in a decreased grade.
If you have any condition, such as a physical or learning disability, that will make it difficult for
you to complete the work as I have outlined it, please notify me in the first week of class.
Reading Schedule
This schedule is tentative. It is the student’s responsibility to keep up with any changes.
Page numbers refer to the editions listed in this syllabus (see page 1) and sold in the UC bookstore.
Please use these editions, so that we are all on the same page.
January 28 Introduction, and explanation of syllabus
January 30 Sons and Lovers, 1-79
February 4 Sons and Lovers, 80-171
February 6 Sons and Lovers, 172-240
February 11 No class. I am speaking at Stanford
February 13 Sons and Lovers, 241-400
Quiz on Sons and Lovers
February 18 The Age of Innocence, 1-75
February 20 The Age of Innocence, 76-132
February 25 The Age of Innocence, 133-199
February 27 The Age of Innocence, 200-270
March 4
“The Dead”
Quiz on The Age of Innocence
March 6
Go Tell It On the Mountain, 2-74
March 11
Go Tell It On the Mountain, 75-150
Paper due in class
March 13
Go Tell It On the Mountain, 151-226
Quiz on Go Tell It On the Mountain
March 18
Mid-term exam
March 20
Mrs. Dalloway, 3-48
March 25
Mrs. Dalloway, 48-103
March 27
Mrs. Dalloway, 104-151
March 31-April 4
Spring Break
April 8
Mrs. Dalloway, 151-194
Quiz on Mrs. Dalloway
April 10
Movie: Mrs. Dalloway
April 15
Movie continues
April 17
A Single Man, 9-93
April 22
A Single Man, 93-186
April 24
Disgrace, 1-87
April 29
Disgrace, 88-195
May 1
Disgrace, 196-220
May 6
The Conversations of Cow, 1-76
May 8
The Conversations of Cow, and Conclusion
Quiz on A Single Man
Quiz on Disgrace
Paper due in class
Final Exam May 15, 8.00-10.00 a.m.
VI. Justification for third crosslisting:
In 500 words or less describe the extenuating circumstances making a third course necessary.
Gender and Sexuality is the theme of this course. Therefore it is clearly of special interest to
students specializing in Women’s and Gender Studies. It is the only course of its kind on campus,
and addresses many issues centrally important for WGS students, such as gender roles, gender
identity, sexual orientation, same-sex and cross-sex relations, as represented in twentieth-century
fiction.
The WGS program is technically part of the Liberal Studies program; however, it has its own rubric
therefore cross-listing is required. I have taught this course thrice as experimental and twice under
the present number. It has always been cross-listed with WGS and has always drawn WGS
students. It needs to be listed as WGS for these students to be aware of it. My appointment in
Liberal Studies was with an emphasis in Women’s Studies, and the central theme of my research
and teaching is gender studies, therefore most of my upper-division courses are cross-listed with
WGS.
VII Copies and Electronic Submission. After approval, submit signed original, and electronic file to
the Faculty Senate Office, UH 221, camie.foos@mso.umt.edu.