ENGL2015 — American Indian Literature
ENGL 2015 - American Indian Literature ENGL 2015 - American Indian Literature Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab NA Internship hours per week NA Course Description: This college course intended for all students explores and analyzes American Indian Literature. The course includes various expressions of American Indian, Native American, and Indigenous literatures with focus on individual and human values as well as the historical and ongoing dynamics of settler colonialism, deterritorialization, racism, and unequal power relations between Indigenous peoples, lands, Native Nations, and other groups, individually and institutionally. Selections may include works by Black Elk, Ella Vine Deloria, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, and Tommy Orange. MnTC Goals Goal 6 Goal 7B Major Content An overview of elements of literature, including plot, character, point of view, setting, theme, tone, as well as styles unique to American literature and American Indian, Native American, and Indigenous literature. Diverse literary works expressed by American Indian, Native American, and Indigenous authors from a variety of cultures, regions, ethnicities, and/or classes to support a definition of “literature”, “American Indian Literature”, and canon formation. A variety of the literary traditions of American Indian, Native American, and Indigenous authors and literature, including various nations, geographical spaces, historical eras, such as variety of genres potentially
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052