ENGL 2014 - Minnesota Writers

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This college course intended for all students explores literature by Minnesota writers from a variety of communities that shape Minnesota society and culture such as immigrant communities, regions (urban and rural), ethnicities, classes, and/or identities. Selections may include poetry, novels, short stories, and non-fiction by writers such 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
Goal 6 Goal 7A

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 experiences and literary contributions from the many groups that shape Minnesota society and culture within the wider American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.
2. analyze these literary works as expressions of individual and human values within the historical and social context of Minnesota culture including the development of and changing meanings of group identities represented in Minnesota’s literature.
3. respond critically to literary works by Minnesota writers.
4. analyze basic literary elements in works studied.
5. articulate an informed personal reaction to literary works based on an analysis of their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts, and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry and those of the writers, characters, and situations encountered in Minnesota literature.

07A.03 analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts, and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry and those of the writers, characters, and situations encountered in Minnesota literature.

07A.04 describe and discuss the experience and literary contributions of the many groups that shape Minnesota society and culture within the wider American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.

Practicum hours per week: 0

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