URBS 273 - Current Topics in Urban Literature

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University of Pennsylvania

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Staff. Topics vary. The current topic is "Writing in Concert." The class comprises two parts: teaching a common text and writing about the experience using memoir, reportage, and criticism. Students will learn the common text in close reading, discussion, and preliminary essay exercises. The idea is to develop an intimate relationship with a text, learn about yourself as a writer from your responses to it, and then, by creating a mini-course syllabus with lesson plans, learn how to help readers at different stages in life and literacy find their own ways to enter the text. Learning the work takes three to four weeks; teaching requires four to six, with some overlap. Students teach in several urban learning sites, each with its own challenges and charesma: high school English classes, a church-based book group, adult education centers, a recovery house, and homeless shelters. In April, students attend a reading by Sonia Sanchez at Art Sanctuary, a North Philadelphia arts organization at the Church of the Advocate.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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