Office of Instruction and Student Services Application for Course Approval Revised 3/3/2014
Section 1 Proposal Information
Course Developer:
Margaret Bayless
Date: 2/23/2014
Catalog year to take effect : 2014-2015
Revision in credits
Type of Proposal
New course
Revised course
199 Special Studies
299 Trends
Type of Course:
Lower Division Collegiate (transfer)
Professional/Technical (program requires)
Professional/Technical (stand-alone)
Developmental, numbered below 100
Office of Instruction and Student Services Application for Course Approval Revised 3/3/2014
Rationale:
How does this proposal further the goals of the program or department?
Over the past two years, the English department has adopted articulated course objectives for all of our courses. These outcomes represent a deepening of our curricula.
Since the adoption of these outcomes, literature faculty members have recognized that 3 credits are insufficient for the realization of our curricular goals and have agreed that 4 credits are more appropriate for our literature courses. To this end, I would like to shift the American Working Class in Fiction, Non-Fiction and Film course to 4 credits. This course is taught as a learning community: Fat Cats and Underdogs: Work, Class and the American Dream, which combines the literature and a WR 123 course.
The additional credit would be warranted through additional class time and class assignments.
What evidence supports this proposal? Any of the courses that require introducing students to aesthetic, historical, sociological, and cultural issues as they relate to literature necessitate more time than is allotted in 3 credits of FTE.
(New courses) How do you know there is a demand for this course?
Office of Instruction and Student Services Application for Course Approval Revised 3/3/2014
PREVIOUS Catalog/Course Information:
Course Number: ENG 257 Course Title in Banner: The American Working Class (30 characters maximum)
Full Course Title in print catalog: ENG 257 The American Working Class in Fiction and Non-Fiction
Prerequisites: none Co-requisites: none
Grade Option: Graded (with P/NP option) Pass/No Pass only
Number/Type Credits / Term Minimum Contact / 11-Week Term / Term Maximum Contact3 Lecture / 30 hours (lec. credits x 10) / 33 hours (lec. credits x 11) / 36 hours (lec. credits x 12)
Lec/Lab / hours (lec.-lab credits x 20) / hours (lec.-lab credits x 22) / hours (lec.-lab credits x 24)
Lab / hours (lab credits x 30) / hours (lab credits x 33) / hours (lab credits x 36)
3 Total credits / 30 hours Total / 33 hours Total / 36 hours Total
What will change in this course as a result of changing the credits?
Course Description Course Outline X Contact Hours
Course Outcomes Other (explain): deepening of curricula
Section 2. Course Outline (A general statement of course content that informs class syllabus construction.)
Course Number: ENG 257 Course Title for Banner: The American Working Class (30 characters maximum)
Full Course Title for print catalog: ENG 257 The American Working Class in Fiction and Non-Fiction
Prerequisites: none Co-requisites: none
Grade Option: Graded (with P/NP option) Pass/No Pass only
Number/Type Credits / Minimum Contact / 11-Week Term Contact / Maximum Contact4 Lecture / 40 hours (lec. credits x 10) / 44 hours (lec. credits x 11) / 48 hours (lec. credits x 12)
Lec/Lab / hours (lec-lab credits x 20) / hours (lec-lab credits x 22) / hours (lec.-lab credits x 24)
Lab / hours (lab credits x 30) / hours (lab credits x 33) / hours (lab credits x 36)
4 Total credits / 40 hours (sum) / 44 hours (sum) / 48 hours (sum)
Original Course Description:
This course is designed to introduce students to stories, images, metaphors and critical analyses of American working class lives. They will write about their work experiences & the experiences of people they know in relation to the readings, films and class discussions. Finally, they will produce a creative work of their own in relation to working class issues raised in class.
New Course Description (1000 character limit):
Students will be introduced to various theories of class and ethnic and gender theories as well as to historical, political and social issues related to representative texts and complete an interview with an experienced worker from the student’s family or community. The student will analyze and compare the worker’s story to the literature and films reviewed in class.
Original Course Outcomes / Assessments Used
What did the student know, what could the student do at the end of the course, or what attitudes related to the subject would the student hold? / What evidence did you gather that students have achieved course outcomes? (assessment tools include departmental tests, written products, portfolios, juried performances, quizzes and exams, or alternative assessments such as qualitative studies, capstone projects, external reviewers, etc.)
How each outcome was assessed:
Upon completion of this course, successful students will be
able to: / These outcomes will be verified by one or more of the following assessments:
To read and analyze films, essays, and stories, including images and metaphors, and critical analyses about American working class lives. / Weekly critical analyses
Class discussion
To write about their work experiences & the experiences of people they know. To produce a creative work in relation to the readings and class discussions / Two of three major written responses, autobiographical, interviews or creative stories that are provided in written form and presented orally to class.
To analyze on many levels how the storytellers, songwriters, poets, filmmakers, and critics explore the centrality of class status and work (the experience and consciousness of both) in their own, the culture’s or characters’ lives? / Written responses to films, essays and stories, poems and songs.
To critically examine their descriptions of what people get out of working life and what it takes out of them. / Written and oral responses to essay questions provided with the syllabus.
To examine how the stories and images show work and class intersecting with issues of race, ethnicity, gender and national origin as hierarchical categories of identity that form an interlocking system of oppression, each reinforcing the other. / Respond in writing to films, literature, essays and guest speakers that deal with these intersections and discuss in class.
To consider how a writer of filmmaker expresses the opportunities and limitations created by diverse conditions, asking how and why these conditions exist as they do and how they might be different.
To consider how a writer or filmmaker expresses the opportunities and limitations created by diverse conditions, asking how and why these conditions exist as they do and how they might be different. / Write reviews.
To consider from a literary perspective, the ways we can encourage others who are identified as working-class to consider their status in this culture and how they might create systemic changes in the ways the dominant culture (included in the American Dream) values working class art and lives. / Write responses addressing activist events witnessed or as a participant.
To focus on how working-class lives remain invisible in popular and academic realms, and how we will create a new perspective of literature and criticism that includes working class stories. / Create a visual or written creative project presented to the class that captures often ignored stories or images or buried in individual family archives and memories.
NEW COURSE OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of this course, successful students will be
able to: / These outcomes will be verified by one or more of the following assessments:
All of the above outcomes, plus:
To research and present poetry not covered in class that was written by a working-class poet and/or about working-class issues and images. / A one to three-page formal review of at least one of the poems and an oral presentation to class.
To formally interview a working-class person who has stories about their working life and its affects on life outside of work.. / A two to four-page presentation of a least one story and an analysisof the narratiive strategies of the storyteller based on regional and time-period traditions.
Original Course Content by Major Topics
No formal outline available.
New Course Content by Major Topics
What topics will be presented? What are the main activities of the course? What are the central themes?
(See sample at http://www.lanecc.edu/copps
COURSE OUTLINE BY MAJOR TOPIC:
Creating Solidarity
Between The Workers And The Owners: Class Conflict
In Search Of A History & Identity Through Family And National Identity
Bread, Land, And Station: Work, Class, And Place
Clothes Make The Woman: The Social Dimensions Of Class
Classic Or Classy: Art And Class
Final Projects & Portfolio
Section 3. Curriculum Equity http://www.lanecc.edu/copps
To promote an environment where all learners are encouraged to develop their full potential, this course will support Lane’s Curriculum Equity policy in the following way(s):
The two Working Class literature courses in the English department introduce students to literary aesthetic discussions of literature and film along with social/political analyses. Part of the course's outcomes revolve around understanding the ideological implications of given genres used to address ongoing economic and social inequities. Any discussion of genres like proletarian novels, working class poetry and documentaries must include a focus on class, gender, sexuality and race. Students will be asked to be reflective about how writers and filmmakers give voice and support those who have not had a voice in mainstream literature and film and how these art forms can be used as a mechanism of social control and also a means to critique systems of power.
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Section 4. Library Impact Statement
Under accreditation standards, Library consultation is essential for new programs, new courses and for substantively revised courses when the revisions entail any change in library use. What assignments will require the use of library and information resources?
Students will be required to watch films in the reserve area of the library if they miss a film in class and may be required to read articles on reserve and research particular class issues for oral presentations. The library already has a number of anthologies focused on class, and any additional texts should be covered by funding already allotted to English
Each academic area has a Liaison Librarian http://www.lanecc.edu/library/services/liaison.htm . Contact the designated librarian and discuss the library needs of your course.
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To be completed by Liaison Librarian:
Library resources are adequate to support this proposal.
Additional resources are needed but can be obtained from current funds.
Significant additional Library funds/resources are required to support this proposal.
Liaison Librarian Date
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Section 5. Divisional Approval
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Human, Physical, and Financial Resources:
Additional instructional costs (staff, materials, services or facilities) will be incurred to offer this course. Source of funding:
No additional instructional resources (staff, materials, services or facilities) are needed to offer this course.
Explain: The course fee already in place for all film classes covers funding
Divisional Recommendation:
The Academic Dean and Administrative Assistant have reviewed this course proposal and kept a copy for divisional files.
Faculty review of this course was completed within the division on 1/18/2006(date).
Office Administrator Date
Fees:
We have completed rationale and fee request forms to be submitted to ASA upon course approval.
No special fees will be required for this course.
Required Certifications:
We have developed minimum course certification standards for this course to be filed with ASA.
We have completed faculty certification form(s) (http://www.lanecc.edu/cops/faccertf.pdf )
for this course to be filed with ASA and Human Resources.
Pass Do Not Pass
Academic Dean Date
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Section 6. College Approval
Curriculum Committee Chair Date Executive Dean for Academic Affairs Date
Curriculum Approval Committee hearing: ______
Date Vice President for Academic & Date
Student Affairs
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