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Here you will find a course description for English 363. You will also find links to class projects and external web resources. If you are a member of my classes, you have been invited to join this Wiki space as a contributor for class projects, and you may also post questions or issues to the discussion board. If you are not an invited member, and are just here on a whim, welcome, and enjoy!

Junior English Course Description:
Americans have long used story to explore the unique development of their nation: who hasn’t heard the stories about the Boston Tea Party? About Martin Luther King’s eloquence? About brave soldiers facing terror in Iraq? We grow up in a land of concepts that spring from these wonderful stories: freedom, liberty, democracy. And, while these terms are familiar to us from an early age, and we refer to them often, their meanings typically remain cloudy. This course will help us explore these ideas, and determine if the mythology of American culture stands up to the reality of American life.

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In this class, students will examine the role of stories in American culture & our lives, the myths that have grown around concepts such as democracy, freedom & liberty. Students will also examine how the myths function in literature: course readings illustrate the variety of “realities” that people in this country experience, and students will articulate how the realities explored in literature square with the original myths, & what the terms mean in 21st Century America. ======

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