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Academic Year 2000/2001

Personalizing History
ENGL 152 FA

This intensive writing workshop focuses on the ethnic/immigrant memoir genre. Students will be asked to use family stories and personal memories to produce a memoir(s) that explores the personal dimensions of history and the historical dimensions of the personal. Besides in-class writing and critique, we will discuss examples of the immigrant/ethnic memoir genre.

MAJOR READINGS

VISIONS OF AMERICA, ed. Wesley Brown and Amy Ling

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Extensive writing, rewriting, and critique on a weekly basis. Discussions of assigned readings. A final writing project.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: ENGL201 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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