ENGL 2013 - African American Literature

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab na
Internship hours per week na
Course Description: This college course intended for all students explores and analyzes African American Literature. The course focuses on various expressions of individual and human values and explores the historical and ongoing dynamics of racism and unequal power relations between African Americans and other groups, both individually and institutionally, within America and American literature. Typical authors may include Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison, and Kiese Laymon.
MnTC Goals
Goal 6 Goal 7B

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: ENGL 1020   with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021  with a grade of C or higher.

Major Content

1. demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in African American literature. 

2. articulate an informed personal response to literary works in African American literature by gathering relevant, accurate and fair information.

3. analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts, and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry in order to critical respond to literary works in African American literature.

4. analyze and evaluate the development and changing meaning of African American identities in United States’ history and culture in literary works. 

1. demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in African American literature. 

2. analyze basic literary elements in African American literary works studied. 

3. analyze these works as expressions of individual and human values within a historical and social context in a way that demonstrates awareness of the individual and institutional power relationships affecting African Americans. 

4. analyze and evaluate the development and changing meaning of African American identities in United States’ history and culture in literary works. 

5. analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts, and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry in order to critical respond to literary works in African American literature.

6. articulate an informed personal response to literary works in African American literature by gathering relevant, accurate and fair information.

07B. 02. Describe individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations among racial groups in the United States and how inequality is maintained by redefining race and other social identities and structures. 

07B. 05. Identify socially just and antiracist practices that increase equitable outcomes and inclusion in the United States. 

Practicum hours per week: na

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