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ENGL 378H/ IS 305H and ENGL 378/ IS 305 The Celts Leprechauns, Braveheart, and hassle Potter professor Janet Morgan Haavisto, Ph. D. Course Description This charge is designed to encourage a clearer understanding of the charm the Celts ( especial(a)ly the Irish and sparing) be possessed of exerted on the existence and on themselves through their attempts to dress their culture. We go out examine the characteristics that the Celts agree traditionall(a)y prized and validated. These characteristics read led the Irish from pre-St. Patrick, into their difficult birth with the English, into Home Rule, and finally into the European Union.These characteristics deem led the Scotch from the Roman construct Hadrians Wall to William Wallace (Braveheart) to a smooth resented union with England as part of spacious Britain. Through lit and heathen studies, we testament examine efforts to redefine Celtishness for the twenty-first century, along with the issues that must be address ed by all of the constituents in the enterprise in this still divided cultural entity comprised of the British-ruled cardinal counties of northerly Ireland and the free democracy of Ireland, as hale as the subject fieldistic Scots with their justice and educational systems independent of Englands.Beginning with Joyce, Yeats, Synge, Swift, raise Potter (J. K. Rowling), Stevenson, Scott, and Burns, we leave examine the characteristics that have led the Scots through centuries of uncomfortable interaction with England and into the devastation of the clans and the diaspora resulting from the aftermath of the bout of Culloden and the Highland Clearances. Likewise, we will examine the centuries of scathe the Irish have endured in their kind with the English.Contemporary Scots, however, live in a actually different arenaone in which they have moved from a bewilder of perceived superiority in a time in which Hadrian built a wall to contain the savage to the northeast to a worl d in which their sparing is still linked to Englands and their cultural makeup includes the many groups (Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Indians, Asians, Africans, and yet more) who have entered the UK and who see themselves as British. The same military post presents a challenge for the Irish. This alteration is a far cry from the Celtic look-alike of earlier centuries.Through literature and cultural studies, we will examine efforts to redefine Scottishness and Scotland as well as Irishness and Ireland. At the end of the fly the coop students will be able to 1. controvert the issues gnarled in the effort to define Irishness, Scottishness, and Celtishness 2. define devolution and plow the movement for it as well as the ramifications of it for the parties involved and engage in the debate just about the efficacy of it 3. discuss the likely come tos on the Irish and Scots of their definitions of themselves as a result of the Republic of Irelands and the joined Kingdoms entry int o the European Union 4. istinguish among terms, such as, Ireland, Scotch Irish, unite Kingdom, Great Britain, England, Briton, British, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Irish Gaelic, Scots language, Scots Gaelic, and Erse 5. explain how early legends helped define the characteristics commonly attributed to the Irish and the Scots 6. discuss the impact of cultural diversity on the inhabitants of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and Scotland and how such cultural diversity complicates effort to define themselves and their cultures 7. iscuss the issues of racialism plaguing Ireland and Scotland and the difficulties racism causes in the effort to define themselves and their cultures 8. light upon among such terms as Britishness, Englishness, Welshness, Scottishness, Irishness and discuss why distinctions are made among such terms 9. discuss the significance of orange tree and green and tartans, harps, and bagpipes 10. discuss some writers and their literature and the perspectives they shed on the issues of Irishness and Scotchness on attempts to view as Irish and Scots of many national and ethnic backgrounds 11. iscuss the history and extent of Irish and Scots immigration and its effects on the development of the U. S. A. 12. explore why in the effort to redefine themselves both besotted identification with the United States and anti-Americanism figure into the Irish and Scot effort to position their cultures in the world of the twenty-first century. Texts Required for students taking this course for Honors credit (strongly recommended for all others) Cahill, Thomas. How the Irish rescue Civilization. ISBN-10 0385418493 ISBN-13 978-0385418492 Herman, Arthur. How the Scots Invented the Modern World.ISBN-10 0609809997 ISBN-13 978-0609809990 Webb, Jim. Born contend How the Scots-Irish Shaped America. ISBN-10 0767916891 ISBN-13 978-0767916899 Required readings for all students The Harry Potter series of 7 novels (You do not need to bring them all on the trip. Just read them originally you come. ) Robert Lewis Stevensons Kidnapped http//www. online-literature. com/stevenson/kidnapped/ Sir Walter Scotts Ivanhoe (any edition) http//www. online-literature. com/walter_scott/ivanhoe/ Robert Burns poetry http//www. poetry-archive. com/b/burns_robert. html Auld Lang Syne Bannockburn O My Luves Like a Red, Red arise Tam OShanter (Burns original side-by-side with a standard English translation http//www. worldburnsclub. com/poems/translations/446. htm) Online Selections Selections from The CAIN Project. University of Ulster retell from the website This site contains information and source significant on the Troubles and politics in Northern Ireland from 1968 to the present. There is also information on Northern Ireland society. New material is added on a regular basis and there are also patronise updates, so information on particular pages may change. http//cain. ulst. ac. uk/ The