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Winter 2020
Apr 28,2024 |
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| ENG 232 - Native American Literature, Myth and Folklore |
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Associated Term:
Winter 2020
Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: 1. Recognize her experience, strength and hope more completely by placing it alongside the experiences, strengths, and hopes expressed by Native American literary artists; 2. Identify major themes developed in Native American literature; 3. Identify elements of world view common to Native American people and expressed in their literatures; 4. Recognize these elements and themes as they function in a wide variety of Native American texts, especially oral ones. 5. Identify the distinctive literary characteristics of Native American oral literary traditions; 6. Identify the distinctive literary characteristics of Native American writers and also the major characteristics they share with African American, Chicana/o, Asian American and Euro-American writers; 7. Recognize these characteristics operating in pieces of oral and written Native American literature. 8. Distinguish between connotation and denotation and demonstrate how connotative language helps shape major aspects of the literary tradition. 9. Demonstrate ability to use interpretive frameworks to investigate contextual meanings of literature. Required Materials: Technical Requirements: |
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