Reading Generically: Modern Short Prose

Reading Generically: Modern Short Prose is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies course taught by Alicia Ellis.

This course satisfies Division I requirements.

Course Description
This course is intended as a survey of 19th and 20th century readings in the short prose form. Short stories are difficult, consuming and complex. A well-written short story will cause you to swoon while a poorly constructed one will inspire violent feelings. The concerns of this course will be: how to read short stories, how and what to write about short stories, innovations in style, form and point of view. This course is about close and attentive reading and writing. Authors may include Flannery O'Connor, Jorge Luis Borges, Charles Johnson, Franz Kafka, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, Zora Neale Hurston, James Tiptree and James Baldwin. Frequent writing assignments and class presentations.

Learning Goals

 * Expressive
 * Multi-Cultural
 * Presenting
 * Reading
 * Writing