Intensive literary criticism of major African American authors, emphasizing fiction and selecting works from one or two writers for close study.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.38 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.62 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.70 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).
Identify major 20th and 21st century African American writers of fiction, poetry, essays and drama.
Explain how African American writers engage with modernism, post-modernism and the literary avant-garde.
Describe how African American writers in the first half of the 20th c. wrote from familiarity with the living memory of slavery and oral and written histories of migration to the North.
Develop research projects that demonstrate strong analytical and writing skills.
Develop a theoretical framework for a literary research project and for an oral presentation that displays strong leadership skills.
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2023: 3.38 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.62 GPA, 87.5% A/AB (n=8 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.70 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=5 letter grades).
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Major Authors
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