ENGL 11Introduction to American Cultures
English · 5 units · Undergraduate lower division (0-99)
Exploration of question of what is meant by America, and hence what is meant by American culture and American studies. Addresses concepts of origins (real or imagined beginnings of cultural formations), identities (narratives of people and places), and media (creative process as manifest in aesthetic forms, artistic movements, and information systems).
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Requisites: English Composition 3, English 4W or 4HW or 4WS.
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ENGL 11
- ENGL 4HWCritical Reading and Writing (Honors)
- ENGL 4WCritical Reading and Writing
- ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Language
- ENGCOMP 2Approaches to University Writing
- ENGCOMP 2IApproaches to University Writing for Multilingual Students
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ENGL 11
- ENGL 87Topics in American Cultures
- ENGL 121Modern and Contemporary Aesthetics and Critical Theory
- ENGL 122Keywords in Theory
- ENGL 123Theories of History and Historicism
- ENGL 124Theories of Religion
- ENGL 127Performance, Media, and Cultural Theory
- ENGL 166AColonial Beginnings of American Literature
- ENGL 166BAmerican Literature, 1776 to 1832
- ENGL 166CAmerican Literature, 1832 to 1865
- ENGL 167AAmerican Poetry to 1900
- ENGL 167BAmerican Fiction to 1900
- ENGL 168Major American Writers
- ENGL 169Topics in Literature, circa 1700 to 1850
- ENGL 180Topics in Literature and Language
- ENGL 181ATopics in Genre Studies
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