ENGL 2014 - Minnesota Writers

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: This college course intended for all students explores literature by Minnesota writers. Selections may include poetry, novels, short stories, and non-fiction by such writers as Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Meridel LeSueur, August Wilson, Tim O’Brien, Louise Erdrich, Kao Kalia Yang, Kate DiCamillo, and Danez Smith.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts

7 Human Diversity

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: ENGL 1020   with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021  with a grade of C or higher.

Major Content

1. Ethnicity and Identity
2. Immigration
3. Rural life
4. Urban life

1. demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in Minnesota literature.
2. analyze these works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
3. articulate an informed personal reaction to works by Minnesota writers.
4. respond critically to works by Minnesota writers.
5. analyze basic literary elements in works studied.
6. analyze the development and changing meanings of group identities in U.S. history and culture.
7. analyze and articulate the similarities and differences between their attitudes, behaviors, concepts, and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry and those of the writers, characters, and situations encountered literature by Minnesota writers.
8. articulate an informed reaction to the experiences and contributions of varied groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.

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