Spring 2027

Selected Topics in African American Literature

Intensive analysis of specific themes in the African American experience within selected topics in African American literature; subjects vary with instructor.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.15 GPA, 69.2% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.33 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify major literary movements in the history of the Black literary tradition.

  • Identify the contextual frameworks that shape representations of race across a broad range of cultural texts and objects.

  • Describe the goals, challenges, and questions raised by the thematic and aesthetic choices of Black writers.

  • Develop persuasive written arguments about the aesthetic construction, form, context, and meaning of Black writers' cultural texts and objects.

  • Communicate with others in a way that displays an understanding of racial inequities in the US.

  • Write compelling and coherent arguments using textual analysis and cultural studies criticism employed by literary scholars.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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AFROAMER/ENGL 672

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.15 GPA, 69.2% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.73 GPA, 93.3% A/AB (n=15 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.33 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Specific themes in the African American experience
  • Major literary movements in the Black literary tradition
  • Contextual frameworks shaping representations of race in cultural texts
  • Thematic and aesthetic choices of Black writers

Skills

  • Identify literary movements and contextual frameworks for race representations.
  • Describe goals and challenges in Black writers' thematic and aesthetic choices.
  • Write arguments using textual analysis and cultural studies criticism.

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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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