ENG 257 African American Literature

Studies representative literary works by African American writers. Focuses on African American culture and traditions and their contributions to the diversity and significance of American literature. Recommended: Completion of WR 121Z Composition I or equivalent.

Credits

Notes

Lower Division Transfer (LDT) Course

General Education Requirements

AAOT Arts & Letters, AAOT Cultural Literacy, AAS Human Relations, AGS Humanities/Arts, AS Cultural Diversity, AS Diff, Power & Oppress Found, AS Liberal Arts Core II

Outcomes

Analyze African American literature through critical reading, writing, and discussion. Describe how African American culture, history, and literature explore the human condition. Recognize how African Americans experience difference, power, and discrimination. Participate in activities that encourage personal awareness, growth, and/or creativity through interactions with African American literature. Explain how ascribed differences are socially constructed, change over time, and impact our and others’ lived experiences. Articulate– using historical and contemporary examples – how ascribed differences, combined with inequitable distribution of power across cultural, economic, social, and/or political institutions, result in racism and intersect with other forms of systemic oppression. Describe how assets and resilience demonstrated by members of systematically marginalized communities and cultures play a role in dismantling racism and other systems of oppression.