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2021-2022 Cal State East Bay Catalog 
    
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ENGL 445 - Ethnic American Autobiography


Units: 4
Selected memoirs and autobiographical writings by African-American, Latino/a, American Indian, Asian-American, and other ethnic American writers. 

Equivalent Quarter Course: ENGL 4660.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently


Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
  1.  Demonstrate (a) an ability to analyze selected passages from diverse forms of life writing and (b) an ability to use such analyses to illuminate and complicate a reading of the texts in which these passages occur.
  2.  Take various critical approaches to a range of ethnic American life writing.
  3.  Understand the historical and social contexts for cultural production of life writing in the U.S.
  4.  Achieve a working knowledge of the histories, traditions, heterogeneity, and intersections of various ethnic groups in the U.S. as they are manifested in autobiographical texts.
  5.  Identify historical patterns of discrimination in the U.S. that affect language, models of identity, and resistance to imposed identities in memoirs and other forms of ethnic American life writing.
  6.  Express their interpretations in cogent, well-organized prose (which may involve drafting, revision, finding library resources, compiling bibliographies, applying research).




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