Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2004
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WGST 389 001 (CRN: 22247)
GENERATION X IN LIT & CULTURE
Long Title:
Department: *Women and Gender Studies*
Instructor: Comer, Krista
Meeting: 1:00PM - 2:20PM TR (12-JAN-2004 - 8-MAY-2004)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 500
Section Enrolled: 7
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 500
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 42
Enrollment data as of: 16-JUN-2024 1:14AM
Description: GENERATION X IN LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Our course surveys several cultures associated with Generation X in order to ask: what, who and why is Gen X? Are today's students Gen X, Gen Y, both? We begin by establishing broad sociological and historical contexts, asking after the differences between slacker culture, Gen "Mex," and that of the hip hop nation. We then move to reading a series of Gen X literary, musical and film texts. Early "classics" include Coupland and Ellis alongside later "response" Gen X texts like Liu, Schweser & Himelstein, Nicholson, Kadohata. Films include New Jack City, Slacker, Smoke Signals, Quadrophenia. Conclusions focus on so-called Gen Y (or Gen 9/11.) Two papers + final project.
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Also offered as ENGL 389.
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INSTRUCTOR: Comer, Krista Cross-list: ENGL 389.