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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Beavers. That modernism is steeped as much in the rituals of race as of innovation is most evident in the emergence of the music we have come to know as jazz, which results from collaborations and confrontations taking place both across and within the color line. In this course we will look at jazz and the literary representations it engendered in order to understand modern American culture. We will explore a dizzying variety of forms, including autobiography and album liner notes, biography, poetry, fiction, and cinema. We'll examine how race, gender, and class influenced the development of jazz music, and then will use jazz music to develop critical approaches to literary form. Students are not required to have a critical understanding of music. Class will involve visits from musicians and critics, as well as field trips to some of Philadelphia's most vibrant jazz venues.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Beavers, Davis, Tillet. An introduction to African-American literature, typically ranging across a wide spectrum of moments, genres, and ideological postures, from Reconstruction and the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. Most versions of this course will begin in the 19th century; some versions of the course will concentrate only on the modern period. Topics vary. See the Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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Staff. This course is cross-listed with ENGL 083 (20th Century Literatures in Dialogue) when the course content includes African, African American, or other African Diaspora literatures. What dialogues have defined and constituted American and other literatures This course examines critical intersections between different literatures, addressing questions of race, ethnicity, and culture. Previous versions of this course have included such titles as "African-American and Jewish American Literature." Our readings will consider a range of literary interactions, and will take a self-consciously comparative and intertextual approach. See the Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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Staff. The idea of "race" -- broadly defined as the signification of biological and socio-cultural differences as an index of human superiority or inferiority -- has played a crucial role in the literary imagination and is fundamental to studying most literatures in English. This course will examine representations of race in literary practices, and in particular the centrality of such representations to the historical unfolding of communities and nations. How do ideas of race inform and engage with literary forms and genres in a given historical moment, and how does literature in turn address the histories and legacies of racist practices We will also analyze the connenctions between questions of race and questions of "ethnicity": what, for instance, is the history of this concept, and what does it mean to designate a body of imaginative writing as an "ethnic literature " See the Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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Davis. This is an introduction to literary study through the works of a single author. We will read several works and approach them--both in discussion and in writing--from a range of critical perspectives. The author's relation to his or her time, to literary history generally, and to the problems of performance, are likely to be emphasized. See the Africana Studies Program's website www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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Staff. This course is cross-listed with HIST 104 (Freshman Seminar: America after 1800) when the subject matter is related to Africa, African American or African diaspora issues. See the Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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Davis. This is an introduction to literary study through a survey of works from a specific historical period. Some verions will begin with traditional stories or poems, including a sampling of works in translation. Others will focus exclusively on modern and contemporary American short fiction or poetry. See Africana Studies Program's website at www.sas.upenn.edu/africana for a description of the current offerings.
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Beavers. This course is not open to freshmen. Students wishing to take this course must submit a writing sample as part of the selection process. This workshop is intended to help students with prior experience writing poetry develop techniques to generate poems along with the critical tools necessary to revise and complete them. Through in-class exercises, weekly writing assignments, readings of established poets, and class critique, students will acquire an assortment of resources that will help them develop a more concrete sense of voice, rhythm, metaphor, and the image as well as a deeper understanding of how these things come together to make a successful poem. In addiiton to weekly writings, students will be asked to keep a journal, and to produce a final portfolio of poems.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course is intended as an introuction to movements and figures of African American religion from slavery to the present. Lectures, readings, and discussions will focus on themes related to content and methodology in the study of African American religious history. Guiding themes include the relationship between race and gender; the tension between piety and activity; the ambivalence between mainstream respectability and racial pride; and the interaction between Christianity, lived religions, and alternative traditions
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May be counted as a General Requirement Course in Formal Reasoning & Analysis. Class of 2009 & prior only. Charles. This course offers a basic introduction to the applicaiton/interpretation of statistical analysis in sociology. Upon completion, you should be familiar with a variety of basic statistical techniques that allow examination of interesting social questions. We begin by learning to describe the characteristics of groups, followed by a discussion of how to examine and generalize about relationships between the characteristics of groups. Emphasis is placed on the understanding/interpretation of statistics used to describe and make generalizations about group characteristics. In addition to hand calculations, you will also become familiar with using PCs to run statistical tests.
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