Book List
Spring Quarter:
Writing Creative Nonfiction, ed. Carolyn Forche and Philip Gerard
The Truth About Stories, Thomas King
Lydia’s Open Door, Patty Kelly
Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Nazario
Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Sula, Toni Morrison
On The Move, Rudy Martin
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Film Studies: Critical Approaches, edited by John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson
(selections)
Winter Quarter:
Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Norton Critical Edition)
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Penguin)
The Oxford Companion to United States History (Oxford)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Bantam)
Daniel Chandler, Semiotics: The Basics (Routledge)
George Lakoff, Moral Politics (University of Chicago)
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (Chelsea House)
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (Oxford)
Willa Cather, O Pioneers! (Virago)
John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (Hackett)
Fall Quarter:
The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie
Ceremony by Leslie Silko
Organic Machine by Richard White
Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith Basso
This House of Sky by Ivan Doig
Hole in the Sky by William Kitteredge
With His Pistol in His Hand by Americo Paredes
Memory of Fire, Volume 3: Century of the Wind by Eduardo Galeano
Interpretation of Cultures (selections) by Clifford Geertz