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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 21959
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 309
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Literature/Writing
Other Requirements Met:
Writing Intensive
The music we call the blues was invented, Ralph Ellison once wrote, by a group of people struggling with the question of how to live without power, and how to exert their will in circumstances that offered no good choices. This is true not just of the blues, but of much of literature and art reaching back at least as far as the time of the Greeks. In this class, we will look at a selections of texts--music, poetry, drama, fiction, film--that explore the challenge of affirming one's humanity in the face of powerlessness and untenable choices. We'll start with the blues but then reach outward to artists beyond the African American tradition--Robert Frost, Aeschylus, Kate Chopin--who wrestle in a significant way with human choice and agency. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. This course satisfies the Writing Across the Curriculum Writing Intensive requirement.
4 Credits