WUSTL Course Listings Login with WUSTL Key
Search Results: Help Display: Open + Closed     Just Open     Just Closed View: Regular     Condensed     Expanded
1 course found.
WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY STUDIES (L77)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2018

L77 WGSS 323Selected American Writers: James Baldwin Now3.0 Units
Description:This class will examine why James Baldwin, buried in 1987, often looks like today's most vital and most cherished new African American author. An inexhaustible public witness and the author of plays, essays, novels, and short stories, the Harlem-born Baldwin ranks with the most daring and eloquent American voices of the twentieth century. His first novel, the autobiographical "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), wrestled with the heritage of black Christianity and black social realism. His second novel, "Giovanni's Room" (1956), set in Paris and peopled with non-black characters, explored the complexity of same-sex desire years before the Stonewall riots announced the gay rights movement. "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), the first collection of Baldwin's lush and searching essays, is perhaps the most-tweeted book of our era and is listed among the Modern Library's top twenty nonfiction books of the twentieth century. Our reading list will contain all of these books, but we'll also begin with Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" (1940), the young Baldwin's defining aesthetic enemy, and end with Ta-Nehisi Coates's memoir "Between the World and Me" (2015), the prize-winning Baldwin rewrite that illuminates the older author's elevated reputation in the wake of Black Lives Matter. Satisfies the Twentieth Century and later requirement.
Attributes:A&S IQHUMArtHUMBUHUME LitTCENH
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:IdentSame As:L14 323  L90 335  L98 3232Frequency:None / History
Label

Home/Ident

A course may be either a “Home” course or an “Ident” course.

A “Home” course is a course that is created, maintained and “owned” by one academic department (aka the “Home” department). The “Home” department is primarily responsible for the decision making and logistical support for the course and instructor.

An “Ident” course is the exact same course as the “Home” (i.e. same instructor, same class time, etc), but is simply being offered to students through another department for purposes of registering under a different department and course number.

Students should, whenever possible, register for their courses under the department number toward which they intend to count the course. For example, an AFAS major should register for the course "Africa: Peoples and Cultures" under its Ident number, L90 306B, whereas an Anthropology major should register for the same course under its Home number, L48 306B.

Grade Options
C=Credit (letter grade)
P=Pass/Fail
A=Audit
U=Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
S=Special Audit
Q=ME Q (Medical School)

Please note: not all grade options assigned to a course are available to all students, based on prime school and/or division. Please contact the student support services area in your school or program with questions.