Overview
Description
African-American writing from literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Typically includes various genres such as poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- analyze artistic and critical texts within their historical contexts.
- demonstrate analytic reading skills in oral and written contexts.
- apply critical frameworks to African-American literary texts from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
- articulate the connection between fiction, poetry, drama, film, essay, and popular culture.
- identify the complex elements important to African Americans in relation to their history, values, politics, economy, or beliefs and practices.
- use models and theories of cultural difference to investigate topics in diversity and equity.
- demonstrate knowledge of the history, customs, worldviews, and/or other cultural markers of African Americans.
- articulate ways in which social identities such as race, class, and gender intersect in order to influence individual life experiences and/or perspectives in African American culture.