Subtitle: Show Me Your Documents: Immigration Literature
Summer 2018: Session 1: 05/21/2018 through 06/29/2018
Human experience is aesthetic sustenance for writers while literature offers a way for readers to consider human experience beyond their own. This course will examine literary representations of the common human experience of migration and explore the context of public discourse regarding migration in the present moment. In our study of immigration literature, we will read short fiction, poetry, novels, life writing and essays about the movement of people. We will also view and analyze film and multimedia sources. Our texts will present African, African American, Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern, European, and European American voices addressing the themes of the course. Each student will choose a text with guidance and create and give an oral presentation analyzing and contextualizing the chosen text for a final project.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will augment their knowledge of how literature is organized by historical periods, genres, cultures, and cultural formations.
- Students will improve their ability to ask questions of and to read, analyze, and interpret complex literary texts, using relevant literary terminology critically and creatively.
- Students will improve their ability to express ideas by organizing, developing and supporting a description, analysis, or argument in written formats, within the conventions of academic writing.
- Students will produce a significant amount of writing such that the course fulfills the requirements of its mandatory W Focus designation (i.e., 4,000 words).
For inquiries about the course, email janetjg@hawaii.edu or call (808) 352-0074.