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Winter 2021
Apr 29,2024 |
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| ENG 257 - The American Working Class in Fiction and Non-Fiction |
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Associated Term:
Winter 2021
Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: 1. Read and analyze films, essays, and stories, including images and metaphors, and critical analysis about American working class lives. 2. Write about their work experiences and the experiences of people they know. To produce a creative work in relation to the readings and class discussions. 3. Analyze on many levels how the storytellers, songwriters, poets, filmmakers, and critics explore the centrality of class status and work (the experience and consciousness of both) in their own, the culture's or characters' lives. 4. Critically examine their descriptions of what people get out of working life and what it takes out of them. 5. Examine how the stories and images show work and class intersecting with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, and national origin as hierarchical categories of identity that form an interlocking system of oppression, each reinforcing the other. 6. Consider how a writer or filmmaker expresses the opportunities and limitations created by diverse conditions, asking how and why these conditions exist as they do and how they might be different. 7. Consider from a literary perspective, the ways we can encourage others who are identified as working-class to consider their status in this culture and how they might create systemic changes in the ways the dominant culture (included in the American Dream) values working class art and lives. 8. Focus on how working-class lives remain invisible in popular and academic realms, and how we will create a new perspective of literature and criticism that includes working class stories. 9. Research and present poetry not covered in class that was written by a working-class poet and/or about working-class issues and images. 10. Formally interview a working-class person who has stories about their working life and its effects on life outside of work. 11. Distinguish between connotation and denotation and demonstrate how the connotative language helps shape major points of a literary text (poems, story, play). 12. Demonstrate ability to use interpretive frameworks to investigate contextual meanings of literature. Required Materials: Technical Requirements: |
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