ASRC 1821

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ASRC 1821
FWS: Listen to Understand: Writing Black Performance & Black Lives

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Blues and jazz music are central to American culture and will be a major focus of our writing in this course. We will explore the work of iconic artists such as Billie Holiday, Nina Simone and Janelle Monae, whose transmission of the Black experience collapses the distinctions between art, philosophy, the erotic, and the struggle for liberation. We will also read key philosophers and intellectuals such as Angela Davis and Fred Moten, combining the pleasure of appreciating music with rigorous intellectual exploration in our seminar discussion that presents higher-order thinking and university level writing. Writing projects will include critical essays, research-based papers, and a video essay as we develop our understanding of Black experience and performance in our capacities as writers.


Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP

When Offered Spring.

Satisfies Requirement First-Year Writing Seminar.

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 20097 ASRC 1821   SEM 101

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    • MW
    • Jan 21 - May 6, 2025

    • Douglas, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.