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Apr 26, 2024
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LIT 133 - Minority Voices in U.S. Literature
Last Date of Approval: Spring 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 a wide range of literary works and movements of minority voices in the United States, with special emphasis on African-American, Native-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American, and female writers. Social, economic, cultural, and political influences will be explored and analyzed in poems, plays, fiction, and non-fiction through class discussions and written analyses. 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: traditional/face-to-face, virtual
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 minority authors and genres in U.S. literature.
- Analyze the techniques and themes characteristic of various literary movements in the U.S. featuring minority voices.
- Examine the social, political, and historical contexts of U.S. literature written by minority authors.
- 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 by minority authors in different genres from several periods in U.S. 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 minority voices of authors and works of major periods of U.S. literature, with emphasis on how historical, political, and social contexts impacted both form and content.
- Compare and contrast minority voices of authors and works of major periods of U.S. 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 citing, grammar, usage, and mechanics in all written assignments, essays, and projects.
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