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Effective Term:
Winter 2018 through Summer 2021

Course Number:
ENG 265
Course Title:
Literature of Social Protest
Credit Hours:
4
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Develops an understanding of how the literature of social protest addresses issues of class oppression, economic inequality, racism, sexism, war, and peace. Engages theoretical questions about the relationship between politics and aesthetic expression, as well as the nature of literature in relation to social protest. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon completion of the course students will be able to:

  1. Analyze and discuss texts from a range of genres in the literature of social protest (e.g. poetry, novels, films, nonfiction, songs, and multimedia).
  2. Identify persistent themes and their expressions in the literature of social protest (e.g. solidarity, systems of power, systems of social control, oppression and revolution).
  3. Articulate ways that the literature of social protest is embedded in historical and cultural forces.
  4. Identify relationships between historical moments of social protest and expressions of literary aesthetics.
  5. Produce critical, reflective, and/or creative writing about the literature of social protest.

Course Activities and Design

Course activities may consist of any combination of the following: lectures, group discussion, group projects, viewing films and video texts, listening to recorded readings, guest lectures, research projects, student presentations, in-class journal writing, students' original creative writing, and attending cultural events as a class.
 

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Assessment tools may include informal responses to study questions; evaluation of small- and full-group discussion; in-class and out-of-class writing; formal essays, as well as informal responses to study questions and other types of informal writing; presentations by individuals and groups; short and long essay exams; close reading exercises using support/ evidence; writing exercises which include evaluation of various interpretations of a text and their relative validity. Both instructor and peer evaluation may be incorporated in the assessment process.

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

Concepts & Skills

  • Critical reading
  • Textual comparison and analysis
  • Historical and contextual analysis
  • Genre analysis
  • Documenting social protest and revolution