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Description SB ENG-E 110
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Requesting Campus: * SB - South Bend
Matching Course: * No
School: * LAS - Col of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Subject: * ENG - English
Course Number: * E-110
Has course number been reserved with, SES-
CourseCatalog@exchange.iu.edu,
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Credit Type: * Undergraduate
Is this a Purdue Course?
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Course Title * Diversity in U.S. Literature
Recommended Abbreviation (30 characters including spaces): *
Diversity in U.S. Literature
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Academic Career: * Undergraduate
Effective Term (anticipated): * Fall 2011
Credit Hours: * Fixed at 3
Contact Hours: Fixed at 3
Is S-F grading approval being requested? *
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Prerequisites/Corequisites
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Course Description: * This lecture course offers a broad introduction to the cultural diversity of the United States through a range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, theater, cinema, photography, music, oral history, and critical theory. Topics covered may include race, national identity, gender, the Civil Rights movement, globalization, and immigration.
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Repeatable for Credit? * No
Type of Instructional Experience
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Additional component(s) that apply:
Lecture
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Instruction Mode (select all that apply):
Face-To-Face
Instructor Name: Benjamin Balthaser
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Estimated Enrollment: 100
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Frequency of Schedule: * Once Per Year
Course Typically Offered: Fall Term
Will this course be required for majors? *
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Course Content: This course covers a range of material, including novels, cinema, photography, and music, to explore questions of diversity in the United States in the twentieth century. Issues considered may range from the legacy of slavery to labor struggles to gender equity to sexuality, with a focus on the ways these issues have been represented or found voice in popular culture, from mainstream movies to rap music.
Representative Bibliography or
Resources:
Texts: Fae Myenne Ng, Bone Barbara Ehrenreich, The Hearts of
Men Frederick Douglass, The Meaning of July 4th for the Negro
Stuart Hall, The Question of Cultural Identity George Lipsitz, No
Shining City on a Hill: American Studies and the Problem of
Place Jack Conroy, Uncle Ollies Spite Fence Madonnas of the
Fields: Photography, Gender, and Farm Relief Frank Capra, You
Can't Take it with You Duke Ellington, Ellington Refutes the Cry that Swing Started Sex Crimes Richard Wright, Joe Louis
Uncovers Dynamite; The Ethics of Living Jim Crow Zora Neal
Hurston, from Of Mules and Men Alfred Hitchcock, Psycho Anne
Sexton, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and other poems from Transformations Audre Lorde, Poetry is not a Luxury Anne
Moody, from Coming of Age in Mississippi James Baldwin from
The Fire Next Time Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream
Martin Luther King Jr. Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the
Silence Malcolm X, The Ballot or the Bullet June Jordan A Poem
About My Rights Gil Scott-Heron Evolution and Flashback
(Sound Recording) Tricia Rose, All Aboard the Night Train:
Flow, Layering, and Rupture in Postindustrial New York Michelle
Wallace, When Black Feminism Faces the Music, and the Music is Rap Nell Bernstein, Goin' Gangsta, Choosin' Cholita
Warchowski brothers, The Matrix Melanie McAlester, Military
Multiculturalism in the Gulf War and After Daniel Cano,
Somewhere Outside Duc Pho
Teaching and Learning Methods: Students will be required to write short response papers, take quizzes, a midterm, and an exam, give a short presentation as part of a group, and come to class prepared to participate.
Learning Outcome/Objectives: By engaging with a range of material in a variety of ways, students will gain an improved understanding of the history and nature of conversations about diversity over the course of the twentieth century.
Learning Assessment: Grading Policy: 10 Response Papers: 25% 10 Quizzes: 25%
Midterm: 15% Final: 25% Group Conference: 5%
Attendance/Participation: 5%
South Bend Campus Specific Questions
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SB1. Does this course satisfy General
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Author Document Note Text elaroth This course will satisfy the Diversity in U.S. Society General Education requirement
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03/21/2011 jmcintos
This course has not been approved at this time to satisfy the Diversity in U.S. Society
General Education requirement. This action creates the course for campus offering but further campus action will be necessary for this course to be approved for general education credit.
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Literature 100: Diversity in U.S. Literature
This lecture course offers a broad introduction to the cultural diversity of the United States through a range of interdisciplinary material, including literature, theater, cinema, photography, music, oral history, and critical theory. Topics covered may include race, national identity, gender, the Civil Rights movement, globalization, and immigration.
Grading Policy:
10 Response Papers: 25%
10 Quizzes: 25%
Midterm: 15%
Final: 25%
Group Conference: 5%
Attendance/Participation: 5%
Texts:
Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
Barbara Ehrenreich, The Hearts of Men
All other readings will be posted on Oncourse.
Reading and Assignment Schedule
Note: All assignments and readings are due on the date they are listed.
Week 1: Race, Culture, and National Identity
Day1: Frederick Douglass, “The Meaning of July 4 th for the Negro”
Day 2: Stuart Hall, “The Question of Cultural Identity”
Week 2: Building a New Deal: Race, Class and National Culture in the 1930s
Day 1: George Lipsitz, “No Shining City on a Hill: American Studies and the Problem of Place”
Jack Conroy, “Uncle Ollie’s Spite Fence”
Day 2: “Madonnas of the Fields: Photography, Gender, and Farm Relief”
HO: Analyzing Cultural Texts
Week 3:
Day 1: Film: Frank Capra, You Can’t Take it with You
Day 2: Film: Frank Capra, You Can’t Take it with You
Week 4:

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Day 1: Black entertainment (Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson) vs. Blacks as entertainment
(Disney’s Dumbo ); Duke Ellington, “Ellington Refutes the Cry that Swing Started Sex Crimes”
Day 2: Richard Wright, “Joe Louis Uncovers Dynamite,” “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow”; Zora Neal Hurston, from “Of Mules and Men”
Week 5: The Cultural Politics of Gender
Film: Psycho (view on reserve), to be discussed in lecture
Day 1: Barbara Ehrenreich, from “The Hearts of Men” chapters 3-5
Day 2: Barbara Ehrenreich, from “The Hearts of Men” chapters 9-10
Week 6:
Day 1: Anne Sexton, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” and other poems from Transformations
Day 2: Adrienne Rich, “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,” “Diving into the Wreck”; Audrey Lorde, “Poetry is not a Luxury”
Week 7: Making a New Nation: The Civil Rights Movement
Day 1: Clips from Soundtrack for a Revolution: Songs of the Civil Rights Movement
Anne Moody, from “Coming of Age in Mississippi,”
Day 2: James Baldwin from “The Fire Next Time”; Martin Luther King Jr., “I Have a Dream”
Week 8: Or Does it Explode? Vietnam and Black and Brown Power
Day 1: from “Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans”; Martin Luther King Jr.
“Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break the Silence”
Day 2: from “Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam”; Corky Gonzales, “Yo Soy Joaquín”; clips from Sir No Sir!
Week 9:
Day 1: Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”; June Jordan “A Poem About My Rights”
Day 2: Gil Scott-Heron “Evolution and Flashback” (Sound Recording)
Week 10: Globalization, Postmodernism, and the Crisis of Represenation
Day 1: Mid-Term

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Day2: Video: Stuart Hall on Stuart Hall
Week 11:
Day 1: Tricia Rose, “’All Aboard the Night Train’: Flow, Layering, and Rupture in Postindustrial New York”
Day 2: Michelle Wallace, “When Black Feminism Faces the Music, and the Music is Rap”; Nell Bernstein,
“”Goin’ Gangsta, Choosin’ Cholita”
Week 12:
Day 1: Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
Day 2: Fae Myenne Ng, Bone
Week 14:
Day 1: Film: The Matrix
Day 2: Film: The Matrix
Week 15:
Day 1: Melanie McAlester, “Military Multiculturalism in the Gulf War and After”; Daniel Cano, “Somewhere
Outside Duc Pho”
Day 2: Paper #2 Due . Dandicat "New York Day Women"; Martín Espada, from Alabanza
Finals Week:
Final Exam