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UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement

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Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)

Representative works by African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Chicano/Chicana writers, chiefly from 20th century. Social/cultural factors informing America's literary past/present.

UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement

Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)

Representative works by African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Chicano/Chicana writers, chiefly from 20th century. Social/cultural factors informing America's literary past/present.

UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement

Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)

Representative works by African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Chicano/Chicana writers, chiefly from 20th century. Social/cultural factors informing America's literary past/present.

UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement

Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)

Representative works by African American, American Indian, Asian American, and Chicano/Chicana writers, chiefly from 20th century. Social/cultural factors informing America's literary past/present.

UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement

Open (24 of 25 seats filled)

EngL 1301W satisfies the Literature Core requirement

EngL 1301W introduces students to the cultural, historical, and social legacies of racial oppression in the United States. It considers the ways in which imaginative writings, sounds and images shape, confront and counter prevailing poetics and narratives about the self and the nation. Through essay writing, conversation, and examinations, students do the work of engaging closely and directly with works of literature. EngL 1301W thus satisfies the Literature Core requirement in three specific ways. First, it focuses on analysis of written works of literature. Students study the meanings of a wide range of biographies, stories, essays, poems, and novels. Second, the course pays particular attention to the formal dimensions of literature. Finally, students examine the cultural, historical, and social contexts of literary works as well as their content.

EngL 1301W satisfies the Diversity and Social Justice in the US Theme

EngL 1301W explores issues of power and the American identity throughout the semester. Students focus upon the institution of slavery as the primary example of how social power, prestige and privilege came to be in the hands of one people. More broadly, the course explores the history of institutions and race as they impact each other and as racial identity informs literary genres, forms, styles, and practices. EngL 1301W raises students' awareness of the importance of diversity to the advancement of African-Americans as well as other diverse constituents of the US.

EngL 1301W fulfills Student Learning Outcomes.

Students in EngL 1301W learn how creativity, innovation, discovery, and expression become acts of resistance against racialized identities in America. In this course, students learn to identify and counteract these identities, a skill that will serve them throughout their entire lives. They also learn to engage the many diverse philosophies and cultures that together compose the intricate fabric of American culture and society.

EngL 1301W is a Writing Intensive course.

This course meets the Council on Liberal Education guidelines for a Writing Intensive course. This means that the course:

• integrates writing into course content, through writing assignments that work toward specific course objectives and writing activities that take place throughout the semester

• provides explicit instruction in writing

• requires a cumulative minimum of 2,500 words of formal writing apart from any informal writing activities and assignments

• includes at least one formal assignment that requires students to revise and resubmit drafts after receiving feedback from the course instructor

• requires that at least one-third of each student's final course grade must be tied to the written work done in the course and that a student cannot pass the course and fail the writing component

Essays: 40%

Drafts: 10 %

Quizzes: 20 %

Test: 10%

Attendance: 10 %

Participation: 10 %