The New World Seminar

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Overview

Subject area

ENGL

Catalog Number

49010

Course Title

The New World Seminar

Department(s)

Description

The riches of contemporary immigration literature permit us to address difficult questions of the politics and poetics of language, culture, and self. Discussion will highlight the impact of geographical and linguistic dislocation; complexities of bi-cultural identity; and reassessments of trans/national cultural borders. The texts covered in this reading-intensive seminar include novels by Tomás Rivera, Jamaica Kincaid and Chang-Rae Lee; short stories by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Natalie L. M. Petesch; plays by Martyna Majok and David Henry Hwang; and a selection of poems by Rodolfo Anaya, Gloria Anzaldúa, Czeslaw Milosz, and Simon J. Ortiz.

Academic Career

Undergraduate

Liberal Arts

Yes

Credits

Minimum Units

3

Maximum Units

3

Academic Progress Units

3

Repeat For Credit

No

Components

Name

Lecture

Hours

3

Requisites

032307

Course Schedule