Literature and Culture in the Jazz Age

Literature and Culture in the Jazz Age is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies tutorial taught by Michele Hardesty.

Course Description
This tutorial will introduce students to the interdisciplinary study of U.S. culture by looking at literature (by Fitzgerald, Toomer, Yezierska, Dos Passos as well as less canonical writers), music (jazz, ragtime, blues), visual art and film (The Gold Rush, The Big Parade) released in a single year: 1925. We will explore themes of the Jazz Age such as modernism, urbanization, migration, race, class, and gender. Students will develop critical reading, viewing, listening capabilities by tackling short writing assignments, and will dive into the historical archive to build strong research skills. Students will design and complete a guided independent research project, which will include a class presentation and a final paper.

Learning Goals

 * Multi-Cultural
 * Project-based
 * Presenting
 * Reading
 * Writing