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May 02, 2024
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LIT 130 - African American Literature
Last Date of Approval: May 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This course examines the wide range of African American literary traditions with an emphasis on social, economic, and political influences. The course will expose students to a broad range of literary genres emphasizing early folklore, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and contemporary works of African American prose, poetry, essays, and modern media. Through discussion and written literary analysis, this course helps students build confidence in their reading and communication skills while also enabling them to think critically, consider the viewpoints of others, and effectively express themselves, all of which will benefit them in the classroom, in life, and in the workforce.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
- Read and discuss texts from a variety of authors and genres in African American literature.
- Analyze the techniques and themes characteristic of African American literary movements.
- Examine the social, political, and historical contexts of African American literature.
- Evaluate the influence of race, class, and gender on literature and ideas in a given time period or movement, especially in terms of the society and culture.
- Compose MLA-formatted literary analyses supported by textual evidence with proper citations.
Course Objectives:
- Read a variety of works of different genres from several periods of African-American literature, participating in discussions and completing assessments that demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of the broad range of literary works and authors.
- Compare and contrast the authors and works of major periods of African-American literature, with emphasis on how historical, political, and social contexts impacted both form and content.
- Compare and contrast the authors and works of major periods of African-American literature, with emphasis on how issues of race, class, and gender impacted both form and content.
- Identify, analyze, and explain poems through the lens of structure, theme, and poetic elements such as sound devices and figurative language.
- Analyze narrative prose in terms of theme, plot, point of view, character, setting, and archetypes.
- Develop critical analysis essays over readings from the course with effective support from the texts being analyzed and using proper terminology, formatting, and citations.
- Recognize and apply proper MLA formatting and citation, grammar, usage, and mechanics in all written assignments, essays, and projects.
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