Topic: Writing Your Story
| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MWF | Callaway Center N203 | Hawkins, Keme. | FWRT. | 4 | 4175 | TBA. |
Content: We all have stories to tell; learn how to tell your yours. Through an examination of various biographical and autobiographical structures, students will learn methods of argumentation, persuasion, and exposition while also conducting archival research. Readings will cover a wide variety of writing styles and help us consider issues in constructing memoirs and biographies.
Texts: This course will consider various biographies and memoirs of popular figures like Zora Neale Hurston and Ralph Ellison. Additionally we will consider texts and authors like Jorge Reyes' Rediscovering Cuba: A Personal Memoir, Annie Dillard's Modern American Memoirs and Willis Barnstone's We Jews and Blacks: Memoir with Poems. The archives at MARBL will also provide texts for the course.
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