Contemporary Global Literature

COM LIT 1D - Contemporary Global Literature

Exploring Contemporary Global Literature

COM LIT 2DW - Exploring Contemporary Global Literature

<p>Seminar, three hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1D or 2DW. Study and discussion of major literary texts usually overlooked in courses that focus only on canon of Western literature, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may be from areas of African, Asian, Caribbean, European, Latin American, North American, and Middle Eastern literature. Texts may include works by authors such as Achebe, Can Xue, Desai, Emecheta, Kincaid, Neruda, Ngugi, Pak, Rushdie, and El Saadawi. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics to be offered in specific term. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.</p>

Comparative Literature

College of Letters and Science

Container 1

General Education — Literacy & Cultural Analysis (Arts & Humanities)

Diversity — Letters and Science, Education and Information Studies, Music, Public Affairs

COM LIT 4DW - Global Literature and Writing

Global Literature and Writing

Develop brainstorming, pre-writing, researching, drafting, and redrafting skills to produce a research paper.

Consider the economic, political, and spiritual motivations that inspired the acts of conversion described in the narratives and what motivated the construction of the narratives themselves.

Practice comparative strategies using texts from course readings without relying on outside research. 

Demonstrate critical engagement with a literary text that integrates secondary sources in a revised research paper with an arguable thesis.

Identify, analyze, and critique colonial discourse around indigenous and Christian conversion in the Hispanic and Anglo traditions of the Americas

General Catalog

Global Literature and Writing

COM LIT 4DW

5 units