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GRI 345

U.S. Writers of Color

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Standard

Overview

Description

Literature from writers of color in the United States, such as Native Americans, Black peoples, and Chicanxs.

Requirements

Prerequisites

CH 201CH 202CH 212

Corequisites

  • equivalent
CH 203
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

CH 201 ro CH 202 or CH 212

Corequisites

CH 203 or equivalent

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer

Terms

fall, spring, summer

Core

CO10

Related Courses

Cross Listed With ENG 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 U.S. 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 U.S. 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 writers of color in the United States.
  • 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.