PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL ECUADOR FACULTAD DE COMUNICACIÓN, LINGÜÍSTICA Y LITERATURA ESCUELA DE LINGÜISTICA PROGRAMA DE ESTUDIO: Asignatura: North American Literature Código: 20261 Profesor: Carol Severino Semestre: Segundo Semestre 2007-2008 Créditos: 4 Nivel: Cuarto Paralelo: A DESCRIPCIÓN DE LA MATERIA: Students will read, analyze, and write about short stories and chapters of novels by authors who are writing from and about the ethnic minority experience in the U.S., including African American, Native American, Jewish American, Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Asian American perspectives. Los estudiantes estudiarán, analizarán y redactarán informes sobre diferentes capítulos de novelas y cuentos cortos de autores quienes escriben sobre sus experiencias como miembros de minorías etnicas, incluyendo a las perspectivas afroamericanas, judías, mejicanas, puertoriqueñas y orientales. OBJETIVO(s) GENERAL: To analyze the U.S. as a multicultural society; to learn about and identify with minority and immigrant experiences; to compare and contrast these different experiences as portrayed in the literature. OBJETIVOS ESPECÍFICOS : to compare and contrast the literary techniques of different authors; to learn to write a literary analysis paper; to increase the facility with which students speak and write about literature and culture by increasing their fluency, their vocabulary (both literary and non-literary), and syntactical repertoires. CONTENIDOS: Selections from three anthologies of U.S. Multicultural Literature: Imagining America, Growing Up Ethnic in America, and Identity Lessons as well as excerpts of novels by Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, and Cristina Garcia. The films Joy Luck Club and Smoke Signals will be shown and discussed as well as videotaped interviews with the featured authors. METODOLOGÍA: Classes will be discussion-based with teacher’s mini-lectures on biographical and cultural information. Students will have the opportunity to lead class discussion in teams, to workshop drafts of papers, and to present their paper drafts orally in class. EVALUACIONES: Before Easter in March, a test on the readings, both short answer and essay. Another test on the readings in April, both short answer and essay. A shorter 3-4-page paper due at the beginning of June and a longer 5-6 page final paper due during finals week in June. SISTEMA DE CALIFICACIÓN: 10 points for each of the two tests, 10 points for the first analysis paper, and 20 points for the second. Drafting, workshopping, and presenting will be part of the grade for the papers. CALENDARIO : WEEK 1: February 20, 21: Introduction: Immigrant and Minority Experiences in the U.S. Overview of U.S. Ethnic Lit; Puerto Rican author Nicholasa Mohr WEEK 2: February 27, 28: Chicano experiences, literature: Sandra Cisneros WEEK 3: March 5, 6: Cisneros continued (video) and Nash Candelaria WEEK 4: March 12, 13: Dominican experiences, literature: Julia Alvarez, video WEEK 5: March 19: Test #1 WEEK 6: March 27, 28: Junot Diaz, video WEEK 7: April 2, 3: Cuban American author Cristina Garcia; West Indian author Paule Marshall WEEK 8: April 9, 10: Jewish American authors Grace Paley and Bernard Malamud WEEK 9: April 16, 17: Indian and Pakistani American authors Bharati Mukherjee, Chitra Divakaruni, and Tahira Naqvi WEEK 10: April 23, 24: Chinese American authors: Amy Tan, text and video of Joy Luck Club WEEK 11: April 30: Test #2 WEEK 12: May 7, 8: Gish Jen: Assign and Discuss Paper #1 WEEK 13: May 13 and 14: African American authors: Alice Walker WEEK 14: May 20 and 21: Workshopping of Paper Drafts; Oral Presentations of Papers; Draft of Paper #1 Due WEEK 15: May 27 and 28: Tony Cade Bambara, Jewelle Gomez; Return of drafts with comments: Writing Conferences with Carol WEEK 16: June 5 and 6: Native American authors Leslie Marmon Silko and Louise Erdrich; Paper #1 Due; Assign and Discuss Paper #2 WEEK 17: June: Sherman Alexie story and movie Smoke Signals ; workshop paper #2 WEEK 18: Writing Conferences on Paper #2; Oral Presentations of Paper #2; Paper #2 due as the Final ENTREGA EN SECRETARIA Test #1= March 26; Test #2= May 07; Paper #1=June13; Paper #2=Week of June16/08 Aprobado: __________________________ ________________________ f) Director de la Escuela de Lingüística Fecha: Por el Consejo de Facultad __________________________ ________________________ f) Decana Fecha: .