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1.00 Credits
A writing workshop emphasizing the development of argumentation and research skills. Students learn how to read and evaluate logical arguments, formulate research questions, explore print and electronic resources, and frame persuasive arguments in papers of substantial length. Frequent practice in writing and revising. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Through readings in novels, drama, poetry, and prose from the Restoration to the 20th century, this course will examine shifts in the forms, functions, and meanings of English literature in the context of cultural and historical changes. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
The past decade has witnessed a flowering of cultural production from young black women. This course locates contemporary black transnational women writers-from the 1990's to the present-within a larger tradition of black women's literary and cultural production and black feminist thought. We will consider issues of race, gender, sexuality, cultural trauma, subjectivity and aesthetics in the post-civil rights and postcolonial context in which these contemporary works of fiction arise. Our primary goal is to examine the ways in which these black women writers revise the political and aesthetic concerns of their predecessors. We will read texts from the US, the Caribbean and West Africa in order to engage the possibilities and limitations of theorizing from a black transnational frame of referenc 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to a broad survey of 20th-century African American fiction, essays, and poetry by such celebrated writers as DuBois, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Petry, Hughes, Baldwin, Brooks, Baraka, Jordan, Killens, Morrison, Lorde, and Walker. Our discussions and strategies for reading will be informed by consideration of relevant social, historical, and political contexts. In addition to discussing issues of race, class, gender, and sexuality, emphasis will be on identifying and tracing recurring ideas/themes, as well as on developing a theoretical language to facilitate thoughtful engagement with these works. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course will trace 19th-century ideas about slavery, freedom, race, and identity through the writings of social activists and the exploration of cultural artifacts (speeches, newspapers, photographs, images, and icons). Authors will include Maria Stewart, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child, Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown, and William Lloyd Garrison. This course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.25 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.25 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys African American literature in a variety of genres from the 18th century to the present. Through the study of texts by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Charles Chesnutt, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and others, we will explore the ways these writers have represented and influenced the history of people of African descent in the United States, from slavery and abolition to Jim-Crow segregation and struggles for civil rights; how their work has intervened in the construction of race and imagined the black diaspora; and how their innovations in literary form have engaged with continuing political questions of nation, gender, sexuality, and class. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural contexts. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course introduces students to major writers and issues from the British Victorian period (1837-1901). It will focus on texts--fiction, non-fictional prose, and poetry--in which notions of propriety and morality are in productive dialogue with crimes, threatening secrets, and subversive passions. Texts to be studied include Charlotte Bront 's Jane Eyre, Charles Dickens' Bleak House, D.G. Rossetti's Jenny, and M.E. Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret. (Please note: this course requires substantial amounts of reading; Victorian novels are long!) For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural con 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course combines community learning and writing as a means of discovering how we define others and ourselves through journals, diaries, essays, and stories. Students explore Broad Street as a social and cultural metaphor, with a wide variety of readings depicting "the other" and reflecting the voices of members of underprivileged and privileged classes throughout history. Students perform community service as a part of course activities. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
In this course we will write about "place," and explore how writers render ideas of location, nature, and the environment, ranging from wilderness to city streets. We will move from simple descriptions to an exploration of the larger issues that arise in the interactions between people and places. Readings will include Gretel Erlich and Barry Lopez, among others, who have artfully evoked the spirit of place. 1.00 units, Lecture
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