Undergraduate Courses
E420 Beat Generation Writing
Prerequisite: one course in literatureE420, Beat literature, focuses on major works by writers and poet from “T Generation,” including The Collected Poems, by Allen Ginsberg, On The Road, The Dharma Bums, and The Subterreans, by Jack Kerouac, Naked Lunch, by William Burroughs, The Beat Reader, ed. Ann Charters featuring works by Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gary Snyder, Hettie Jones, Bob Kaufman, Charles Bukowski et al. as well as Leroi Jones’ The Dutchman and The Slave, Joyce Johnson’s Minor Characters and Carolyn Cassady’s Off The Road. Requirements for the course include a twenty-minutes oral presentation on some aspect of the Beat phenomenon, a take-home midterm, two five-page papers, and a term paper which should deal with a comprehensive theme shared by most Beat writers. This is a course which involves many issues, many alternatives to the standard “American Dream.”
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