Overview
Description
Literature from writers of color in the United States, such as Native Americans, Black peoples, and Chicanxs.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer
Terms
fall, spring, summer
Core
CO10
Related Courses
Cross Listed With GRI 345
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- describe what forces affect the ways in which individuals grow up within an ethnic group and develop an identity in American culture.
- describe the perceptions, viewpoints, or life experiences of people in societies or cultures of non-dominant or marginalized groups within the United States.
- identify the complex elements important to members of diverse cultural groups in relation to their history, values, politics, economy, or beliefs and practices.
- employ and understand literary terms to analyze course readings.
- write and think critically about how the literary works characterize minority experience in American literature.
- critically examine and articulate how one’s identity has developed through one’s education and family and how this impacts one’s worldview.
- write a final project that synthesizes and explains the cultural context for the literature of ethnic minority writers in America.
- use advanced search strategies in library research databases and tools to find primary and secondary sources for a presentation or essay.
- produce a well-supported argument that makes an original contribution to the field and could be submitted for publication in an undergraduate journal.