Section Information

Days, Times, and Locations

Tuesday
6:00 pm - 9:50 pm
Media Learning Center - Rm. 118 - map

Class Number (Formerly CRN)

40552

Instructor(s)

Maria Villasenor

Enrollment

iLearn

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University Learning Requirements

Culture and Equity

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Department Information

Name: Humanities and Communication ~ Division of

Email: humanities_communication@csumb.edu

Phone: 582-3889

Fax: 582- 3780

Building: Humanities & Communication

Website: http://hcom.csumb.edu

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Course Description:

Examines American literature through different historical periods, literary genres, and cultural movements. Develops ability to compare and contrast social, historical, and cultural experiences represented in literature. Students gain cross-cultural knowledge of American literary history, an introduction to literary theory, and further development of literary analysis skills. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 6 or the concentration in Literary and Film Studies. Meets the Single Subject in English Waiver Literary Histories, Theories, and Praxis Requirement. Requires successful completion of the ENGCOM ULR; a literature course from the Literature/Popular Culture ULR is highly recommended. (Offered every other year.)

Corequisites, Prerequisites & Restrictions:

Footnotes:

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Start & End Dates:

Start: August 24, 2009
End: December 20, 2009

Consent Requirements:

Catalog History

Course Materials

Paul Lauter, general editor, The Heath anthology of American literature (Boston, Mass. [u.a.]: Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
ISBN: 0618256636
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Required Reading

Jean Toomer ; with an introduction Darwin T. Turner, Cane (New York: Liveright, 1993)
ISBN: 0871401517
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edited David Minter, The sound and the fury : an authoritative text, backgrounds and contexts, criticism (New York: Norton, 1994)
ISBN: 0393964817
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Required Reading

John Steinbeck, Cannery row (New York: Penguin Books, 2002)
ISBN: 014200068X
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Required Reading

Cormac McCarthy, All the pretty horses (London: Picador, 1992)
ISBN: 0330325329
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Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain (New York: Scribner, 2005)
ISBN: 0743271327
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Junot Díaz, The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao (New York: Riverhead Books, 2008)
ISBN: 1594483299
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