Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: JEWISH-AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Department: First-Year Writing Intensive

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This writing-intensive, freshman writing seminar will explore a range of texts, from early immigrant writing to contemporary texts. Whether representing the challenges of immigrant life, or intergenerational family struggles, or contemporary personal, political and social life, these works contest and construct meanings both for "Jewish-American" and for "America" itself. This course is eligible for credit toward the major in English.