HUM 256 MIC*WIC:  African-American Literature and Culture
[MIC=Multicultural Infusion Course] * [WIC=Writing in Context of other disciplines]

(Note: these are in draft form and will be revised in 99-00, before I next offer this course--KW)

The student will:

Apply specific and defensible criteria, appropriate to the cultural context, to analyze, interpret, and evaluate African-American texts.

Analyze the role of orality in this literature, including the continuing effects of "street language."

Explain the broad features of African-American literary history and situate individual texts within that history.

Examine the effects of individual and culturally-determined factors (such as race, gender, class, region, biases of information sources, prior cross-cultural experiences) in one’s own and others’ responses to African American texts and culture.

Evaluate the role which music (such as spirituals, jazz, blues, rap) plays within African-American culture and literature and analyze selected works in relation to an appropriate musical tradition.

Analyze the effects of education, gender roles, printing and publication practices, segregation, and race identity on the development and reputation of these authors.

Use formal and informal writing to develop and express interpretations and analyses, distinguishing between personal and critical responses.

Use evidence from the texts and bring multiple viewpoints and perspectives to bear in developing one’s interpretations, evaluations, and comparative analyses of these literary works.

Explain the relationships within these selections, among audience, purpose, organization, form, voice, diction, style, and use of literary conventions.

Kathy Walsh October, 1998

Hum 230 MIC*WIC: Immigrant Literature and Culture
[MIC=Multicultural Infusion Course] * [WIC=Writing in Context of other disciplines]

Knowledge about a culture different from one’s own:

Explain the broad features of American Immigrant history (for example, push vs. pull immigration; patterns of immigration; ability to assimilate in the U.S.) and situate individual texts within that history.

Apply specific and defensible criteria, appropriate to the specific cultural and historical contexts of each immigrant group (such as Italians, Irish, Jewish), to analyze, interpret, and evaluate specific Immigrant texts.

Analyze the effects of education, gender roles, printing and publication practices, the specific historical/cultural circumstances of particular immigrant groups, assimilation, and cultural identity on the development and reputation of these authors.

Analysis of a written text:

Demonstrate an understanding of specific themes in Immigrant literature such as generational conflict; the American Dream; ethnicity and cultural identity; the journey motif; accommodation and assimilation; melting pot and mosaic imagery; conflict with the dominant American culture and ethics; media representations.

Use formal and informal writing to develop and express interpretations and analyses, distinguishing between personal and critical responses.

Use evidence from the texts and bring multiple viewpoints and perspectives to bear in developing one’s interpretations, evaluations, and comparative analyses of these literary works.

Explain the relationships within these selections, among audience, purpose, organization, form, voice, diction, style, and use of literary conventions.

Explain how the literary treatment of an event, issue or idea differs from the approach of another academic discipline.

Comparative analysis of cultures:

Examine the effects of individual and culturally-determined factors (such as race, gender, class, ethnicity, region, religion, biases of information sources, prior cross-cultural experiences) in one’s own and others’ responses to Immigrant literature and culture.

Identify and explain significant differences and similarities among Immigrant works and cultures and our own, or other nonwestern and multicultural American cultures with which you may be familiar.

Stacey Donohue, 1998

Hum 240 MIC*WIC: Native American Literature and Culture
[MIC=Multicultural Infusion Course] * [WIC=Writing in Context of other disciplines]

A. Knowledge about a culture different from one’s own:

Explain the broad features of Native American history (from pre-contact to the present) and situate individual texts within that history.

Apply specific and defensible criteria, appropriate to the cultural and historical context, to analyze, interpret, and evaluate Native American texts.

Analyze the effects of education, gender roles, printing and publication practices, the reservation system and cultural identity on the development and reputation of these authors.

B. Analysis of a written text:

Analyze the role of orality and storytelling in this literature, including the use of oral story telling devices in contemporary texts.

Demonstrate an understanding of specific themes in Native American literature such as interrelationship between the land and the people; the value of community and tradition; the trickster figure; the "mixed-blood" figure in 20th century literature; the homing plot; and media representations of Native Americans.

Use formal and informal writing to develop and express interpretations and analyses, distinguishing between personal and critical responses.

Use evidence from the texts and bring multiple viewpoints and perspectives to bear in developing one’s interpretations, evaluations, and comparative analyses of these literary works.

Explain the relationships within these selections, among audience, purpose, organization, form, voice, diction, style, and use of literary conventions.

Explain how the literary treatment of an event, issue or idea differs from the approach of another academic discipline.

C. Comparative analysis of cultures:

Examine the effects of individual and culturally-determined factors (such as race, gender, class, ethnicity, region, religion, biases of information sources, prior cross-cultural experiences) in one’s own and others’ responses to Native American literature and culture.

Identify and explain significant differences and similarities among Native American works and cultures and our own, or other nonwestern and multicultural American cultures with which you may be familiar.

Stacey Donohue, 1998

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