LIT 315 - Mapping the Urban Environment Through Personal Narrative

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Antioch University-System Administration

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What does it mean to be an Angeleno Is who we are a function of where we live How can we learn about a particular place -- and our role in it -- through creating our own real-life stories In this course, students examine the literature and culture of their own specific neighborhoods while crafting essays and personal narratives that engage issues of individuality and community as well urban landscape and environment. Pop cultural images of Los Angeles tend to focus on binaries --Skid Row and Watts vs. Melrose and Beverly Hills. But the "Greater Los Angeles Area" consists of five counties and hundreds of culturallydiverse cities, districts, and neighborhoods. Together the class creates an anthology of original personal narratives, mapping and celebrating this diversity through careful attention to both language and place. HUMANITIES DOMAIN

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.antioch.edu

Phone Number:

(937) 769-1372

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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