AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain autobiography as a genre in a historical, a cultural, and a literary context. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Apply theoretical terms to the analysis of autobiographies and autobiographical acts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Historicize and contextualize concepts such as “fiction” “self” and “truth.” Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze the complex relationship between form and content. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Interpret autobiography in relation to gendered and racialized myths and models of national identity. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Understand how autobiography pervades contemporary culture across media and materialities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Enter into dialogue with autobiographical theory and conduct independent research on autobiographical writing. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain autobiography as a genre in a historical, a cultural, and a literary context. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Apply theoretical terms to the analysis of autobiographies and autobiographical acts. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Historicize and contextualize concepts such as “fiction” “self” and “truth.” Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze the complex relationship between form and content. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Interpret autobiography in relation to gendered and racialized myths and models of national identity. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Understand how autobiography pervades contemporary culture across media and materialities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Enter into dialogue with autobiographical theory and conduct independent research on autobiographical writing. Audience: Graduate