Spring 2018  |  AMIN 3201W Section 002: American Indian Literature (49694)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F only
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Enrollment Status:
Open (34 of 35 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Comparative studies of oral traditions, modern literature from various tribal cultures.
Class Description:
How do you creatively respond to the transformations and deformations introduced into Native America by the colonizing cultures of Europe and Euroamerica? In this course we examine how a select group of American Indian writers creatively respond to the experience of colonization in the narratives they imagine. This question is not aimed exclusively at American Indian writers though, nor is it even more generally aimed only at Indian people. Rather this question about colonization is aimed at everyone living here now: How do you (you sitting there reading this statement) creatively respond to the transformations and deformations introduced into Native America by the colonizing culture of Euroamerica? This course invites you to think about this question and this writing, even if you never have before. In class discussions we will examine how various writers approach this question and we will familiarize ourselves with the ideas, themes, and tools Native writers use through close readings of their works. In addition to examining the works we will also examine ways the various works ask us to consider and reconsider our own experiences of living in North America. Your responses to the works and our guiding question will be explored, examined, and developed in class discussions, a variety of short writing assignments, and in a final research essay. You will read four or five books for the course as well as a half-dozen or so short readings. As the course is Writing-Intensive you will also do about 40 pages of writing.
Grading:
80% Reports/Papers
20% Quizzes
Class Format:
10% Lecture
90% Discussion
Workload:
150 Pages Reading Per Week
40 Pages Writing Per Term
10 Quiz(zes)
Other Workload: numerous papers, short (2 pages) and one long (10+ pages)
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/49694/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
2 June 2009

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