ELI Supported Courses for Spring 2004

ENGL 118 04 (22159) / Introductory Seminars in Writing and Literature. Barbara Stuart.
This course is designed to concentrate and extend the skills introduced in ENGL 114a and 115a through focused attention on a single topic or area of literary study or the practice of writing. Recent topics have included autobiography, writing across the curriculum, Shakespeare, modern drama, nature writing, and slave narratives. Strongly recommended for freshmen and sophomores who wish to improve their argumentative and analytic skills.

ELI Support Team:
Julie Linden, Convener
Pedro Soto
Karen Reardon
Web Design, Development & Deployment at Yale An Electronic Reference

ENGL 291b/AMST 261b, AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1945. Amy Hungerford.
American fiction and poetry, including works by Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, Allen Ginsberg, Carson McCullers, Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Maxine Hong Kingston, John Edgar Wideman, Marilynne Robinson, John Barth, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Anne Carson.
Course Web Site

ELI Support Team:
George Ouellette, Convener
Ernie Marinko
Sarah Coe

*AFAM 328b/*AMST 334b/*HIST 448b, WOMEN AND RACE, 1860-1960. Deborah Thomas.
An examination of the history of African American women through their work as laborers in the workforce, supporters of religious institutions, and leaders in civic, social welfare, and political organizations from 1860 to the civil rights movement. Special attention to the dynamics of race, class, and gender. Topics include the suffrage movement, the World War I migration, unionization, the women's club movement, and social welfare reform.
Course Web Site

ELI Support Team:
Brian Kupiec, Convener
Sarah Coe
Nancy Kuhl