Detailed Course Requirements:
• 6 blogs on readings and class participation (20%)
• Essay on short story (Orwell, Head, Lahiri, Danticat or
Lee) 15%
(due Thursday, October 3) (600 words, citations from text)
• Essay on patriarchy and colonialism using postcolonial
theory
(20%) (Breath, Eyes,
Memory or Disgrace) (due
Thursday,
November 7)
• Research essay of 6-8 pages on one or two of the major
texts/
films (synopsis, annotated bibliography and draft required;
MLA
format for documentation; source folder required) (30%):
four stages:
- · thesis,
- · annotated bibliography,
- · draft 1,
- · draft 2—details to follow.
·
First draft due November 18; second draft December 5.
• Final reflective essay on a major theme, compared, in 2
texts (can
be one text, one film) ; (different from texts you have
already
written on (15%); due December 12.
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