Poetry of all modes by Black American Poets. Consideration of social environments producing this literature; study of techniques and subjects of various Black poets. The course will require critical essays, including a researched paper.

English Elective

English Elective

Satisfies Flexible Core - US Experience in its Diversity

This series of courses provides students with the chance to study African-American literature in greater depth. Possible topics include: Jazz Fiction; Detective Fiction; and 20th century African Drama.

A study of literature by African American writers. Texts studied may represent a variety of thematic concerns, literary genres and/or historical time periods. (literature)

CBA Credit CC - Liberal Arts

Elective Credit

This course is designed to explore the socio-political environment and evolution of Afro-Americans as reflected in the literature of the Harlem Renaissance (1919-1939) in drama, fiction, poetry and other forms of artistic expression. Students will study the relation of the various changes taking place on the social and political scenes during the first four decades of the twentieth century. The birth of the New Negro, the impact of black Art and Music first in Europe and in the United States will be treated through its literature of justification/revolt or literature of racial/ethnic promotion, cultural awareness and identity. The course will compare the works of key figures of the Harlem Renaissance such as Claude Mckay, Counte Cullen, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer and those writers of the lost generation such as Hemingway and Fitzgerald. New themes and forms developed by the Renaissance writers and their influence on succeeding generations will be studied.

Satisfies Flexible Core - US Experience in its Diversity

A single-semester course dealing with an announced topic, theme, or author.

Satisfies Flexible Core - US Experience in its Diversity

English Elective

(Each course may be taken twice for credit.)Studies in the works of various authors or periods. Topics vary from semester to semester.

English Elective

Elective Credit

Liberal Arts Elective

Elective Credit

Elective Credit

Elective Credit

Study of a literary genre, such as poetry, novel, captivity narrative, slave narrative, autobiography, essay, or short story; or study of a literary movement, such as romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, or post-modernism. The topic varies with each offering. This course can be taken a maximum of two times by any one student.