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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Specialized instruction and practice in beginning writing. Work in usage, grammar, style, paragraphs, and short essays.
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of practice in composition with emphasis on a variety of forms of writing and long essays, culminating in the annotated research paper.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores how literary Chicago enters into discourses on race and ethnicity in twentieth century literature. Begining with Great Migration, students sample literary history produced by people who settled or passed through Chicago. Writers have used Chicago as a setting for major works and sociological studies have attempted to focus on Chicago's neighborhoods and how they were formed as a result of immigration from other countries and migration from the American South. The course examines several works from popular perspectives, fiction, autobiography, journalism, humor, folktales, cultural criticism and regional studies to reach a better understanding of the city.
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3.00 Credits
From the Haymarket "riot" of 1886 to the Pullman Strike of 1894 to the Black Sox scandal of 1919 to the trial of Abbie Hoffman and the Chicago Seven in the aftermath of the Democratic Convention of 1968, Chicago has, to say the least, a colorful and quite literally, explosive political history. As with any major urban center in the United States, Chicago bears the historical scars and contemporary fruits of vibrant and violent class conflict, labor insurgencies, racial strife, immigrant struggles, and activism for social justice. Part and parcel of this historical legay is a rich spate of cultural production that attempts to comprehend this past in those historical moments and in our contemporary era.
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3.00 Credits
In this class, we will analyze and experience Chicago theater. By emphasizing theater that challenges social cultural norms, we will consider how drama works to create and define diverse urban communities and how it offers alternative visions to the status quo. This class will emphasize writing and reading about drama, interviewing theater personnel and taking notes on actual theater performances, and relating art to social and political diversity. We will attend 3-4 performances during the course of the semester.
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3.00 Credits
Chicago is a city of shifting and competing identities. For instance, thousands of Chicanos and Mexicans came to Chicago after World War I and the Immigration Act of 1917, and today, these and other Latinos, such as Puerto Ricans, constitue one of every four residents throughout the Windy City. This course approaches Chicago as a site of contact among groups of people, and it examines the ways that these groups have established, negotiated and defended identities through the use of language and literacy.
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3.00 Credits
An intensive writing course with special focus to writing within designated thematic contexts. Students will read extensively about topics and write several short papers and one longer one. Students make take the course twice (6hrs. total) when conten changes.
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3.00 Credits
A literature course which has three main objectives: 1) to familiarize students with the literary conventions of poetry; 2) to develop in students a critical stance towards literature; and 3) to develop in students an appreciation of both western and non-western cultures as experienced through literature.
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3.00 Credits
A literature course which has three main objectives: 1) to familiarize students with the literary conventions of drama; 2) to develop in students a critical stance towards literature; and 3) to develop in students an appreciation of both western and non-western cultures as experienced through literature.
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3.00 Credits
A literature course which has three main objectives: 1) to familiarize students with the literary conventions of the short story and novel genres; 2) to develop in students a critical stance towards literature; and 3) to develop in students an appreciation of both western and non-western cultures as experienced through literature.
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