ENGL 2013 - African American Literature

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: This college course intended for all students will analyze and explore literature by African American authors. Authors may include Alice Walker, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Zora Neal Hurston, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 7 Human Diversity

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. African American Literature
2. Background of slavery and development of racism/white supremacy
3. Civil Rights and Protest Literature
4. Literature from Reconstruction to Nadir period (1865-1890¿s)
5. Literature from colonial times to Civil War
6. Literature of the 1930¿s to 1960¿s
7. Literature of the early 1900¿s and Harlem Renaissance
8. Literature of the present day

1. demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in African American literature.
2. analyze these works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
3. respond critically to works in African American literature.
4. articulate an informed personal response to works in African American literature.
5. analyze basic literary elements in works studied.
6. analyze and evaluate the development of and the changing meaning of African American identities in United States¿ history and culture.
7. demonstrate awareness of the individual and institutional power relationships affecting African Americans.
8. analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts, and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry

06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.

06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.

06. 05. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.
Competency 2 (7-10)
07. 01. Understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States’ history and culture.

07. 02. Demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations between groups in contemporary society.

07. 03. Analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry.

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