American Crazy: Five Myths of Extremism, Violence, and National Identity
ENGL 150
Fall 2014
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Among the industrialized nations of the world, the U.S. has long had unusually high levels of crime, violence, and imprisonment. This course will explore five especially prominent cultural explanations for American violence. We will consider the origins of these explanations in American myth and history, and we will investigate their appearance in literary expression, journalistic reporting, popular culture, and social science. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYS |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Claude Brown, MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND
Truman Capote, IN COLD BLOOD
James Fenimore COOPER, LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Thomas Dixon, THE CLANSMAN
Frederick Douglass, NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE . . .
William Faulkner, LIGHT IN AUGUST
James Fox Jr., THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME PINE
William Pierce, THE TURNER DIARIES
and additional selected readings and film viewings
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Examinations and Assignments:
This will be a writing intensive course. Students will complete five short essays (3-4pp), with revision, and a longer, research project (8-10 pp). |
| Instructor(s): McCann,Sean Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: FISK101; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: X | JR major: X | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: X | JR non-major: X | SO: X | FR: 15 |
| Web Resources: Syllabus |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 2 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
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