Overview
Description
Reading life stories with attention to gender, race, and class. History, characteristics, and problems of the genre.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Junior or Senior standing
ENG 303
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing OR ENG 303.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Core
CO10
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- list and discuss the key issues that arise in autobiographical writing and apply them to specific written works.
- develop and articulate strategies for reading, interpreting, and critiquing memoirists’ choices of materials and literary techniques.
- place American autobiographical writing in historical context, tracing trends in the representation of gender, race and class in in life writing.
- pose and discuss ethical questions relevant to the genre and to writers’ choices.
- write a successful autobiographical essay, collaborative memoir, and critical interpretation, as measured by course rubric.
- demonstrate, through an annotated bibliography and class presentation, awareness of theories and research relevant to the study of autobiographical writing, and particularly to questions about truth, memory, identity, and representation.