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Academic Year 2001/2002
Social Imagination of the 30s
ENGL 109 FA
This course will consider the various meanings and values perceived in country, state, people, and community during the Depression.
MAJOR READINGS
James Agee and Walker Evans, LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN James M. Cain, THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE John Dos Passos, THE BIG MONEY Mike Gold, JEWS WITHOUT MONEY Zora Neale Hurston, THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING
GOD Meridel LeSueur, RIPENING
Clifford Odets, "Awake and Sing," SIX PLAYS Tillie Olson, YONNONDIO Nathaneal West, THE DAY OF THE LOCUST Richard Wright, NATIVE SON Films: A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, BRINGING UP BABY, FREAKS, THE GRAPES OF WRATH,
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935, IT HAPPENED ON
NIGHT, LITTLE CAESER
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Requirements include numerous short papers and classroom participation.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
An occasional film may be shown outside of class time. 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
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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