AI 263 - Life/ Work: Zora n Hurston

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DePaul University

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This is an Online Course and a Travel Course--a dynamic duo! Students will be required to attend three "live" class sessions in the Loop to supplement online course work. Students will also attend the 12th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival in historic Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated Black town in the US, for a four-day immersion in Black culture. Estimated expenses include tuition, airfare, hotel, food, local transportation, and conference registration fees (approximately $1,200, plus tuition. "Zora Neale Hurston, outstanding novelist, journalist, folklorist, and critic, was, between 1920 and 1950, the most prolific black women writer in America. The intellectual and spiritual foremother of a generation of black women writers, Hurston believed in the beauty of black expressions and traditions and in the psychological wholeness of black life." (I Love Myself When I Am Laughing: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader [Alice Walker, ed., Feminist Press, 1979], i). Zora Neale Hurston, adult learner, writer, folklorist, playwright, and storyteller, was an amazingly gifted woman. Her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is a recognized classic used in many college classrooms across the country. A legend in her own right who Alice Walker ranks with Bessie Smith and Billy Holiday, Zora Neale Hurston has been a beacon for students interested in learning about Black life and culture. Students in this class will immerse themselves in the literature by and about Zora Neale Hurston and will create research projects that connect their learning with their own scholarly interests. ). Competencies: A1X, as, H1X. Faculty: Deborah Holton

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.depaul.edu

Phone Number:

(312) 362-8000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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