LIT 80I - 01 Topics in American Culture
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- Career
- Undergraduate
- Grading
- Student Option
- Class Number
- 70171
- Type
- Lecture
- Instruction Mode
- Synchronous Online
- Credits
- 5 units
- General Education
- TA
- Status
- Open
- Available Seats
- 69
- Enrollment Capacity
- 100
- Enrolled
- 31
- Wait List Capacity
- 0
- Wait List Total
- 0
Description
A history of one or more cultural genres in written, visual, and/or musical forms. Course topic changes; please see the Class Search for the current topic. May be repeated for credit.
Class Notes
From the Instructor: Our love of musical genres shapes our language, communities, tastes, identities, and aesthetics. We can learn about musical genres, thus learn about ourselves and others, through reading and listening carefully. This course provides deeper insight into the nature of some musical genres, challenges assumptions about them, and invites us to understand why people identify with musical genres through an engagement with literature and creative expressions. We'll read a novel, short stories, view rock documentaries, music videos, read an autobiography, short stories, poetry, and listen to music. The course pairs musical genres with identities that may or may not be our own and explores literature and creative expressions through these pairings: Queer identities / experimental music, African American identities / the blues, Asian American identities / hip hop, Indigeneity / rock, and Xicanisma / punk.
Meeting Information
Days & Times |
Room |
Instructor |
Meeting Dates |
MW 09:00AM-12:30PM |
Online |
Gates,M.E. |
07/25/22 - 08/26/22 |
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