0504-325 - Honors Literature

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Rochester Institute of Technology

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Through literature, film, photographs, and other forms of cultural expression, we explore questions about democratic culture and the significance of American identity from within and beyond national borders. The focus for this version of the course is on the 1950's-that decade wedged between the end of WorldWar II and the beginning of the psychedelic 1960's. Students will investigate, for example, how Sputnik, McCarthyism, I Love Lucy, the Civil Rights movement, the Beatles, the atomic bomb, interstate highways, and Elvis converged in the formation of post-war American culture and society. Assignments include investigations of key words, literary analyses, time lines, oral history, and student presentations. Students will become modest experts on a literary text or cultural phenomena or critical event or new movement that surfaced during this decade. Invited speakers will offer their expertise about one aspect of this anything-but-dull decade. Students may take this course as honors literature: American Studies (0504-325), as a general education elective, American Studies (0523-400), or as a course in the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor. Fulfills one of the four honors core requirements in the RIT honors program. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered twice annually)

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rit.edu/

Phone Number:

(585) 475-2411

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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