LITR 5734: Colonial & Postcolonial Literature

Index to Sample Student Final Exams 2008

copy of final exam

The sample exams linked below are listed in alphabetical order. Quality is variable, but all were among the better submissions or offered a unique contribution. Excerpts or elisions are indicated by ellipses ( . . . ).


Essay 1: Describe and evaluate your learning experience or learning curve (Objective 3 + others)


Allison Coyle, LITR 5734 Meets Modern Day Classrooms

Karen Daniel, Why Should We Get to Decide?

Danielle Lynch, American Experience as Third Wave Colonialism

Corrie Manigold, Making the Self Strange

C. Vanessa Olivier, Intertextual Healing

Cory Owen, What I Thought I Knew

corey porter!, What Gives: The Cooption of the Colonizer . . .

Matt Richards, . . . from Bias towards Understanding

Erica  Shillings, Incorporating Colonialism in an American State of Mind

Tanya Stanley, Removing Ignorance and Lessening Resistance

Dawlat Yassin, Literary Experience with Colonial And Postcolonial Literature

 

Essay 2: Compose a dialogue between our four novels since the midterm. (Objectives 1, 2, and 3 + others)


Allison Coyle, Immigration and Isolation: Creating a ‘Home’ Among the Unknown

Karen Daniel, Voiceless and Choiceless: the Oppression of Women in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature

Corrie Manigold, Power and Knowledge: A Closer Look at Colonial and Post-colonial Relationships

C. Vanessa Olivier, The Sameness of Otherness

Talli Ortiz, Tradition is Never the Same Each Year

Cory Owen, Defining the Self and the Other to Shape Identities

corey porter!, Under Lock and Key: Why Sacrifice Safety . . . ? . . .

Matt Richards, The Concept of the Other . . .

Tanya Stanley, Self versus Other: A Parent-Child Dialogue . . .

Dawlat Yassin, Human Relationships and Individual Identity