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Middlesex Community College Academic Catalog 2016-17 
    
Middlesex Community College Academic Catalog 2016-17 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 110 - The Autobiographical Adventure: Our Lives as Stories

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The study of autobiography and memoir is designed to help us make meaning of our lives. In this course we will be reading great texts that both tell compelling stories and make meaning of those stories. Then, we’ll be taking ideas and techniques from those texts to inspire our own stories. We will be reading selections from works such as Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes,” Mary Karr’s “The Liars Club,” Luis J. Rodriguez’s “La Vida Loca: Gang Days in LA,” James McBride’s “The Color of Water,” Nora Seton’s “The Kitchen Congregation,” and Steven King’s “A Memoir on the Craft of Writing”. We will be researching, developing and shaping our own life stories and responding to the work of others in a workshop format.

ISLOs: This course supports student development of Written and Oral Communications, Critical Thinking, and Personal and Professional Development.

Prerequisite(s): Eligible for ENG 101.
General Education Elective(s): Humanities
Note(s): This course has been approved to meet the Core curriculum General Education Requirement.


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