Nassau
One Education Dr Garden City, NY 11530-6793
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The following is fulfilled by this course:
- Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
- Humanities
Nassau has listed this a core course in the following categories:
The core course can be applied to following SUNY Transfer Paths:
ENG 229
Native American Literature
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 109.
This course examines narrative styles and themes in Native American literature, and focuses on its embodiment of traditional American Indian concepts of time, space, history, spirit, body, and community. How Native American literature adapts oral literature and its traditions to the requirements of written literature is central to the course. It also studies myth, pastiche, and humor as literary modes employed to challenge stereotypical depictions of "the Indian" in dominant Western culture. Authors include: N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Greg Sarris, Sherman Alexie, James Welch and Paula Gunn Allen. Writing is an integral component of the course.
SUNY GE-SDES, SHUM; SUNY GEN ED-GHUM; NCC GEN ED-HUM, LIT, PLDI
Offered: Spring