Explores Beat Generation and Beat-related writers including Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and Diane Di Prima. Along with literary analysis, texts are situated in historical, political, and cultural contexts. A study and exploration of imaginative literature that includes lectures, discussions, in-class writing, techniques for drafting, developing, shaping, revising, and editing work, supportive feedback, and individual meetings for the development of significant projects and for the assessment of work. Every other year.