CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Bernice Kennedy/SUNY
Last modified by: Stephanie Thomas/SUNY
Composed: 03/18/2002 05:03 PM
Curriculum Committee Approval Date:
Modified: 01/06/2016
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Course Number: (prefix) CUL (number) 224024 ESC 2.0 Course number: LITR-3130 LITR-3130US Multicultural Fiction

Name: U. S. Multicultural Fiction
Datatel Title: (30char) U. S. Multicultural Fiction

Area Coordinator: Susan Oaks Department Code: 10CM Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: UPPER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? NO
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 7. HumanitiesFully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2: Fully or Partially:



Pre-registration Information?
Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Spring 2, Fall 2		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
Spring 2, Fall 2
First Term Offered: (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
Last Term Offered in Print Version:
Title Changes:
AC Changes:
BK Number: 25

Description: Focus on literature by African American, Asian American, Latin American and Native American writers, with an opportunity to read additional works by writers that reflect your own family's tradition. Explore the treatment, meanings and implications of multiculturalism in contemporary U.S. fiction. These explorations will include investigations of how diverse American cultures are valued, critiqued and transmitted through literature. Writers include Toni Cade Bambara, Ernest Gaines, Oscar Hijuelos, Gish Hen, Anna Llnzer, N. Scott Momady and others. Student writing will include personal, critical and researched responses to issues of multicultural fiction, presented both in online discussions and formal essays of literary analysis.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Humanities.

Generic:



Major Course Area
Communications Humanities and Cultural Studies		Minor Course Area
Literature		SLN Disciplines
English & Literature
Additional Course Requirements
WWW Computer Conference		 Undergrad Certificate Association:


2


Meets General Education Requirement

Required Booknote:

Optional Booknote:


Archive Course:

genedcode for dpplanner: 7^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: Humanities