LIT 345 Working Class Literature

General

• Analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry.
• Articulate substantial and clearly presented responses to urban working class literature at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of upper-division courses at comprehensive universities.
• Conduct literary analysis that is responsive to details and to complexities of text, theme, and characterization in urban working class literature at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of upper-division courses at comprehensive universities.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations between groups in contemporary society.
• Demonstrate communication skills necessary for living and working effectively in a society with great population diversity.
• Demonstrate familiarity with genres and subgenres of urban working class literature and understand the development and characteristics of these subgenres at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of upper-division courses at comprehensive universities.
• Describe and discuss the experience and contributions (political, social, economic, etc.) of the many groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.
• Interpret urban working class literature, applying biographical and/or cultural evidence as relevant ¿ at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of upper-division courses at comprehensive universities.
• Know the historical and aesthetic development of urban working class literature at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of upper-division courses at comprehensive universities.
• Master the integration of literary evidence into the student's own writing, including standard formatting and citation practices at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of upper-division courses at comprehensive universities.
• Read and respond to urban working class literature with intelligence and sensitivity at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of upper-division courses at comprehensive universities.
• Understand and apply literary terms, theoretical concepts, reading strategies, and analytical methods to the study of urban working class literature at a level consistent with the analytical and expressive complexity and sophistication that are distinctly characteristic of upper-division courses at comprehensive universities.
• Understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States' history and culture.