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ENGL 231 - AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Prerequisite: ENGL 111 English Composition I. This multidisciplinary course is designed to define and assess African American literature and its contributions to American culture and the American literary canon. The course will cover/explore Colonial times through the present, including antebellum and postbellum poetry and prose, African American Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, African American Postmodernism, the Black Aesthetic Movement, African American Neo-Realism, and African American Speculative Fiction. In order to understand and appreciate the oral and written traditions/literary expressions of African Americans, students read a variety of texts; folktales, short stories, poetry, novels, and dramatic works, and analyze works in the African American oral/spoken word and musical traditions. Students also read contemporary literary criticism, as well as pertinent theoretical works from other disciplines. 3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours 0.000 Lab hours Levels: Academic Schedule Types: Lecture Liberal and Fine Arts Division English Department Course Attributes: Global &Cultural Gen Education, Diversity Elect English Progrm, Free Elective, General Education, Humanities General Education, Engl Literature Gen Education View Textbook Info

ENGL 231 - AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Prerequisite: ENGL 111 English Composition I. This multidisciplinary course is designed to define and assess African American literature and its contributions to American culture and the American literary canon. The course will cover/explore Colonial times through the present, including antebellum and postbellum poetry and prose, African American Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, African American Postmodernism, the Black Aesthetic Movement, African American Neo-Realism, and African American Speculative Fiction. In order to understand and appreciate the oral and written traditions/literary expressions of African Americans, students read a variety of texts; folktales, short stories, poetry, novels, and dramatic works, and analyze works in the African American oral/spoken word and musical traditions. Students also read contemporary literary criticism, as well as pertinent theoretical works from other disciplines.
3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours
0.000 Lab hours

Levels: Academic
Schedule Types: Lecture

Liberal and Fine Arts Division
English Department

Course Attributes:
Global &Cultural Gen Education, Diversity Elect English Progrm, Free Elective, General Education, Humanities General Education, Engl Literature Gen Education

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