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Academic Year 2002/2003


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 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003


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