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SPECIAL TOPICS IN LITERATURE: NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE (CUL-224404)

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Course Description:


This course will offer you diverse Native perspectives and debates on Native American literature. Each part of the course focuses on a cultural quality or value, an element of literature, and a time period. Together, these provide a sense of Native American literature in historical and cultural context.
 
Students will learn about the historical construction of colonizing stereotypes of Indians; how Native writers use humor to evoke, play with, and intervene in these stereotypes; a sense of tribal diversity, of uniqueness and commonalities; culturally appropriate theories for reading Native American literature; and historical contexts inherent in much Native literature that register as tensions between Native and Western cultural qualities and values.

We will work with ways Native literature negotiates the historical legacy of power dynamics, clarifies the stakes of cultural values, and addresses contemporary issues that we face globally.

This course fully meets the General Education requirements in Humanities.

This online course is offered through the Center for Distance Learning. You can take this as an individual course or as part of an online degree program, with term starts in March, May, September, November and January. View current term offerings and all online courses. Click here to register for online courses.

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Liberal Study
Upper Level
Credits: 4
Meets General Education Requirement In: Humanities-Full
Term(s) Offered (Subject to Change) : Jan. Sep.

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