Courses

This course presents an intensive analysis of the works of major Black writers in terms of their sociopolitical thought, their role in the development of modem African-American literature, and their place in American and Western literary history from 1760 through the Harlem Renaissance.

A critical study of representative African American writers from the beginning to 1920, including slave narratives, autobiography, fiction and poetry.

Survey of African American literature from its earliest expressions to 1935. The course material includes spirituals, slave narratives, poetry, drama, autobiography, fiction, and nonfiction. Humanities, Literature, PW: Global Engagement

African American Literature from 1910 to the present.

Cultural values from James Baldwin in 1950s, through black nationalist, civil rights, and black feminist movements, to contemporary writers such as Ishmael Reed, Charles Johnson, and Toni Morrison.

This course is a survey of African American contributions to American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present, giving attention to all literary genres, and with a particular focus on the following cultural influences: the Harlem Renaissance, Modernism, Urban Realism, the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements, the Black Arts Movement, the 1970s Renaissance, and the Black Women’s Movement.

Students in this course will examine works by major Black voices of the 20th century from the Harlem Renaissance to the present.

A critical study of works by representative African American writers from 1920 to the present.

Survey of African American literature from 1935 to the present. The course material includes poetry, drama, autobiography, fiction, and nonfiction. Humanities, Literature, PW: Global Engagement

This course is a study of the literature of Americans of African descent-from the oral tradition through contemporary genres.