take me home | seminar : american identities

course description

level : open to students that have successfully attended all courses at the introductory level and a second-year course.
aim and content : to provide, in a first ("core") section of four or five meetings, an overview over the history of multiculturalism in the usa, as a framework--both 'factual' and 'discursive'--within which key issues of contemporary u.s. hispanic literature (puerto rican, mexican, and cuban american) and its theory and criticism can be placed. to identify critical tools that will deal with selected u.s. hispanic texts in a manner we can find satisfactory; to (learn how to) apply them to those texts; to do both of these things both orally and in writing. presentations on texts and approaches to them; discussion.
preparation : a cursory reading of the anthology of 'core' texts before the beginning of the semester.
assessment : regular attendance, discussion, group work and presentations; optional seminar paper.

ernst rudin ||| 20-10-2000