ENGL 104LC: LIT &CULT 1900-PRES
University of California, Santa Barbara
Modern and postmodern literature by British, Irish, African, Indian, and Caribbean writers, who challenge the norms of power, culture, and gender as they found them. Key themes for the class: colonialism and primitivism, the formation of the Irish nation, new gender definitions and new sexualities, the city, technology and work, post-WWII youth cultures and new in England, British national identity at the time of the Cold War (James Bond as national icon), empire, decoloniality, and migration. Readings by Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Yeats, Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Stevie Smith, Seamus Heaney, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Angela Carter, Kazuo Ishiguro, Hanif Kureishi.
Average GPA: 3.41
Grade distribution records: 216 students across 2 terms.
Grade distribution
| Grade | Students | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| A | 69 | 31.9% |
| A- | 57 | 26.4% |
| B+ | 28 | 13.0% |
| B | 31 | 14.4% |
| B- | 12 | 5.6% |
| C+ | 7 | 3.2% |
| C | 7 | 3.2% |
| C- | 1 | 0.5% |
| D- | 1 | 0.5% |
| F | 3 | 1.4% |
Based on 216 student grade records across 2 terms and 1 professor.
Instructors
- Boscagli M 216 students, Average GPA 3.41