ENGL 460

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Lit of American Minorities

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced topics seminar exploring literary expressions of minority experience in America.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated with permission of English advising office to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours. Graduate students may repeat as topics vary. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 460 class schedule data for spring 2017
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
46884	Lecture-Discussion	1G	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	131 English Building	Jenkins, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Hip Hop as Narrative Section Info: Topic Section 1G: Theorizing Hip Hop: Hip Hop (as) Narrative In this seminar we will apply the tools of literary theory and criticism to hip hop artistry. We will think about rap music not only as a poetic or lyric form, but as a narrative one: a medium of storytelling. While we will explicate individual performances and recordings, our larger goal will be to theorize hip hop as national discourse and contemporary cultural artifact. To that end, our study will include a great deal of recent scholarship on hip hop, particularly new analyses of hip hop aesthetics that expand upon earlier, purely historical treatments. In our work with both primary and secondary texts, we will consider the kinds of stories that rap music tells, including those that it tells about the nature of hip hop itself (hip hop meta-narratives). We will also explore the ways that hip hop culture is deployed in the telling of other types of stories, and in other media (the novel, television and film, visual art). Focusing primarily on work produced in the last fifteen to twenty years, the course will be organized thematically, addressing key topics that recur in the music and in the culture more broadly. Our primary objective will be to gain a more nuanced understanding of rap music’s aesthetic and cultural significance, through critical analysis of hip hop as performance and as social metaphor. Attendance and participation, short responses, online postings, midterm and final paper. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
46880	Lecture-Discussion	1U	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	131 English Building	Jenkins, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Hip Hop as Narrative Section Info: Topic Section 1U: Theorizing Hip Hop: Hip Hop (as) Narrative In this seminar we will apply the tools of literary theory and criticism to hip hop artistry. We will think about rap music not only as a poetic or lyric form, but as a narrative one: a medium of storytelling. While we will explicate individual performances and recordings, our larger goal will be to theorize hip hop as national discourse and contemporary cultural artifact. To that end, our study will include a great deal of recent scholarship on hip hop, particularly new analyses of hip hop aesthetics that expand upon earlier, purely historical treatments. In our work with both primary and secondary texts, we will consider the kinds of stories that rap music tells, including those that it tells about the nature of hip hop itself (hip hop meta-narratives). We will also explore the ways that hip hop culture is deployed in the telling of other types of stories, and in other media (the novel, television and film, visual art). Focusing primarily on work produced in the last fifteen to twenty years, the course will be organized thematically, addressing key topics that recur in the music and in the culture more broadly. Our primary objective will be to gain a more nuanced understanding of rap music’s aesthetic and cultural significance, through critical analysis of hip hop as performance and as social metaphor. Attendance and participation, short responses, online postings, midterm and final paper. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
59138	Online	OLG	ARRANGED	n.a.	n.a.	Wright, D	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/13/17-05/03/17 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Race and Representation Section Info: Topic section ONG: America at the Nadir: Race and Representation from Twain to Hurston This course will use a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the perceived role, or “place,” of blacks and other marginalzied groups (including women and the poor) in US society as it was represented in popular forms of expression, such as literature, film, theater and music at the turn of the twentieth century. We will begin with cultural production from the Reconstruction and progress through the Harlem Renaissance and explore such themes as identity and representation; “black face” minstrelsy; “manifest destiny” and modernity; etc. Section ONG is a 2nd 8 week, online section. This class has a mandatory once weekly discussion section at either 9-10:30 am or 6-7:30 pm on Thursdays. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
59137	Online	OLU	ARRANGED	n.a.	n.a.	Wright, D	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/13/17-05/03/17 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Race and Representation Section Info: Topic Section OLU: America at the Nadir: Race and Representation from Twain to Hurston This course will use a multi-disciplinary approach to explore the perceived role, or “place,” of blacks and other marginalzied groups (including women and the poor) in US society as it was represented in popular forms of expression, such as literature, film, theater and music at the turn of the twentieth century. We will begin with cultural production from the Reconstruction and progress through the Harlem Renaissance and explore such themes as identity and representation; “black face” minstrelsy; “manifest destiny” and modernity; etc. Section OLU is a 2nd 8 week on-line section. This class has a mandatory once weekly discussion section at either 9-10:30 am or 6-7:30 pm on Thursdays. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.