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106-250/350 "Introduction to African-american Literature" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p55) : Next:106-254 | Prev:106-247
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Anne Neumann.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- know representative works from two centuries of writing by African-Americans;
- understand the basic historical and political context of African-American literature;
- see how literary canons alter and new academic disciplines arise;
- learn how one minority literature theorises both its own inter-relationship and its relation to the larger culture;
- explore how dominant cultures sometimes co-opt 'marginal' ones.
Content:
This subject is an introduction to African-American literature and its background, in relation to its own traditions and to the dominant European-American culture.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p55) : Next:106-254 | Prev:106-247
2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p100) : Next:106-254 | Prev:106-247
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Anne Neumann.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will:
- know representative works from two centuries of writing by African-Americans;
- understand the basic historical and political context of African-American literature;
- see how literary canons alter and new academic disciplines arise;
- learn how one minority literature theorises both its own inter-relationship and its relation to the larger culture; and
- explore how dominant cultures sometimes co-opt "marginal" ones.
Content:
This subject is an introduction to African-American literature and its background, in relation to its own traditions and to the dominant European-American culture.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
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2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p100) : Next:106-254 | Prev:106-247
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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