ENGL-343 Revolution & Respect: Writing for a Cause Spring for
2010-2011 Using Black protest literature of the Civil Rights era
as a model, this course will show students how to craft fiction
for a purpose. Do you want to reform schools, expose genocide,
stop abortion, end a war, promote or limit immigration? Whatever
your political agenda, you can advance it—as writers always
have—through thoughtful and intentional storytelling. Readings
will include authors such as James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry,
and John A. Williams, and students will be asked to reflect, in
writing, on how these artists identify and attack injustice in
their work. The goal of the course, however, will be for each
student to produce, through various exercises and extensive
drafts, one solid piece of short fiction that advocates a
position on a public issue. Prerequisites: ENGL 040, 041, 042,
or 043 Other academic years There is information about this
course number in other academic years: