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.

Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground, Entirely Online, or Hybrid.
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:

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.
Take various critical approaches to a range of ethnic American life writing.
Understand the historical and social contexts for cultural production of life writing in the U.S.
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.
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.
Express their interpretations in cogent, well-organized prose (which may involve drafting, revision, finding library resources, compiling bibliographies, applying research).