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This course will explore the interconnections between music and literature. By examining selected literary works (novel, drama, memoir, poetry) in the framework of music and by examining musical pieces (blues, folk, rock) in the framework of literature, interconnections between the two fields increase understanding and appreciation of both disciplines. This course will emphasize the power of music to capture imagination, meet challenges, inspire quests, and celebrate life through endurance, rage, protest, and love. Connections to the work of popular songwriters--including Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, and Michael Jackson--will also be made. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 121.
Incarceration seldom appears at the forefront of public concern--despite the millions of Americans behind bars. State-of-the-art forensics and brilliant investigative techniques on CRIMINAL MINDS, CSI, and other "crime" shows convince the public that those arrested must be guilty, but how realistic are these portrayals? This course uses prison literature to show the invisible world of criminal justice. Through memoirs, letters, poems, essays, and autobiographies, the incarcerated bear witness to their social, religious, racial, and political oppression. Some of the writers will include Leonard Peltier, Jimmy Santiago Bacca, John Dear, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Etheridge Knight, Michelle Alexander, and others. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 121.
Incarceration seldom appears at the forefront of public concern--despite the millions of Americans behind bars. State-of-the-art forensics and brilliant investigative techniques on CRIMINAL MINDS, CSI, and other "crime" shows convince the public that those arrested must be guilty, but how realistic are these portrayals? This course uses prison literature to show the invisible world of criminal justice. Through memoirs, letters, poems, essays, and autobiographies, the incarcerated bear witness to their social, religious, racial, and political oppression. Some of the writers will include Leonard Peltier, Jimmy Santiago Bacca, John Dear, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Jr., Etheridge Knight, Michelle Alexander, and others. The writing load for this course is a minimum of 15 pages of formal revised writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 121.
