COMP 328
California: Myths, Peoples, Places Fall 2016
Division I Writing Skills
Cross-listed AMST 318 / REL 318 / ENVI 318 / LATS 318
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Crosslisting Between Paradise and Hell, between environmental disaster and agricultural wonderland, between Reagan and Berkeley, between a land of all nations and a land of multiracial enmity, a diversity of myths have been inscribed onto and pursued within the space we call California. How did certain narratives of California come to be, who has imagined California in certain ways, and why? What is the relationship between certain myths, the peoples who have imagined them, and the other peoples who have shared California dreams? In this course, we will examine some of the myths that surround California by looking at a few specific moments of interaction between the peoples who have come to make California home and the specific places in which they have interacted with each other. Of special interest will be imaginations of the Spanish missions, the Gold Rush, agricultural California, wilderness California, California as “sprawling multicultural dystopia,” and California as “west of the west.”
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 15
Class#: 1609
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: this course will be mostly discussion oriented, with grading based upon participation, short writing exercises, one 3-page review essay with mandatory revision, one 5- to 8-page midterm review essay, and a final 10- to 15-page comparative review essay
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: none
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under COMP; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under LATS, AMST, ENVI or REL
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AMST 318 Division II COMP 328 Division I REL 318 Division II ENVI 318 Division II LATS 318 Division II
Attributes: AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
AMST Space and Place Electives
ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science Electives
ENVP SC-B Group Electives
LATS Core Electives

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