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English 624: African American Literature
Professor Carol Allen
This
is a survey that covers African American Literature from the eighteenth
century to the present. The
course will provide general information about the major writers
and texts that have contributed to African American Letters.
In addition to literary texts, assignments include criticism
from noted scholars such as Houston Baker, Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
Hortense Spillers, Deborah McDowell, Mae Gwendolyn Henderson, and
others. Fiction writers to be studied are Douglass, Hughes, Hurston,
Wright, Brooks, Ellison, Walker, Morrison, and more. The aim is
to provide not only a sense of the African-American literary tradition
but also of where it stands in relation to Western humanities. Required
texts: The Norton Anthology
of African American Literature, Henry Louis Gates, ed. al. eds.; Black Literature and Literary Theory,
Henry Louis Gates, ed.; and course handouts.
English
641: Literacy &
Basic Writing
Professor David Tietge
This
is a graduate course that will examine the theoretical and practical
questions surrounding the development of literacy, particularly
in relation to basic writing, multicultural contexts, and the urban
student writer. It is designed for advanced students who are interested
in developing strategies for teaching the basic writer, but it will
also provide a theoretical backdrop for understanding and applying
those strategies. We will begin by examining the history of composition
instruction in order to understand where and how it is situated
in the academy, and will quickly move to studying some of the leading
thinkers in fields such as composition, education, rhetoric and
linguistics. Though we will attempt to master a considerable amount
of theory in this course, it will not be at the expense of the practical
concerns of teaching writing; there will be a good deal of "hands-on"
experience as well. Therefore,
this course is especially important for those who currently are,
or who someday hope to be, teachers of writing. The course will
be useful not only to English instructors, but to any teachers who
intend to use writing as a primary learning tool in their classrooms.
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