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専門英語（７５）
Youth, Rebellion, and Coming-of-Age in Mid-century America
This course examines stories of youth, rebellion, and coming-of-age across mid-century literature, film, and music from the United States. Mid-twentieth century America was a time of significant social and political change. Storytellers across genres often saw these changes through the points of view of young people. The student, the soldier, the beatnik not only gave writers the chance to critique social norms and beliefs but also to redefine what it meant to live with authenticity and integrity in a world that seemed both increasingly new and fractured. Students will consider the work of Sylvia Plath, James Baldwin, and Bob Dylan among other artists. They will complete two short papers, a group project, and final research essay over the course of the term.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to do the following:
•Discuss the relationship between disability, difference, narrative structure, and aesthetics.
•Explain how literary and artistic texts respond to and are informed by specific cultural moments.
•Apply close reading skills to advance original arguments about literary and cultural texts.
•Engage relevant theoretical and critical approaches when analyzing literary works.
•Discuss the literary and social history of the mid-century United States.
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to do the following:
•Discuss the relationship between disability, difference, narrative structure, and aesthetics.
•Explain how literary and artistic texts respond to and are informed by specific cultural moments.
•Apply close reading skills to advance original arguments about literary and cultural texts.
•Engage relevant theoretical and critical approaches when analyzing literary works.
•Discuss the literary and social history of the mid-century United States.
時間割／共通科目コード
コース名
教員
学期
時限
08B0075
FAS-BA4A01S3
専門英語（７５）
チャループカ エヴァン
木曜3限
マイリストに追加
マイリストから削除
講義使用言語
英語
単位
2
実務経験のある教員による授業科目
NO
他学部履修
可
開講所属
教養学部
授業計画
Unit One: Voice and the Novel
Week 1: Identity, Anxiety, and Disclosure
Week 2: Queering the American Experience
Week 3: Narration and Disaffection
Week 4: American Identity Abroad
Week 5: The Beats and American Counterculture I
Unit Two: Identity, Short Fiction, and Poetry
Week 6: The Beats and American Counterculture II
Week 7: (Re)Imagining Gender in Mid-Century America
Week 8: Ancestry, Environment, and Consciousness
Unit Three: Film and the Margins of Culture
Week 9: Race and Mid-century American Film
Week 10: Rebellion, the Road, and the American Southwest
Week 11: Division and the American Media
Unit Four: Storytelling, Song, and Memory
Week 12: Storytelling and American Music
Week 13: The 60s Remembered
授業の方法
Seminar discussion, debate, student presentation
成績評価方法
Attendance and Participation, 300 points: To earn participation, students must complete all assigned texts prior to the start of the class session. Class sessions will involve group discussions, methodology and theoretical workshops, and peer reviews of major assignments.
Close Reading Essay (x2), ~500-750 words, 100 points each (200 points total): For this short assignment, students will compose an original argument about one literary text they have read in class. Arguments should explain how the formal, structural, and rhetorical features of the selected text create meaning and/or establish a specific experience for the reader. For the second close reading assignment, students will be required to engage at least one critical or contextual source.
Japan-U.S. Intersections Project, 8-10 minute presentation, 200 points: For this partner project, students will create a presentation that identifies and discusses an intersection of Japanese and American culture relevant to the course. Students may consider connections between Japanese and American literature, the Japanese critical reception of course authors, or concurrent cultural histories of the mind between America and Japan.
Final Research Essay, ~1250-1750 words, 300 points: For this extended essay, students will advance an original argument about 1-2 literary texts in the class. Like the close reading essay, the final essay should explain how the formal, structural, and rhetorical features of the selected text create(s) meaning and/or establish a specific experience for the reader. Students must cite at least two critical sources. They are also encouraged, but not required, to cite contextual sources.
履修上の注意
Students will be expected to prepare notes and/or discussion questions prior to the start of each class session in addition to reading the course texts.
