ENLT 411 African American Lit (CD)(ND)
Cultural Diversity, Arts & Letters-Literature. A study of the history of African American literature. The course begins with early writings by slaves (these may include Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs); moves through the nineteenth century to study the Harlem Renaissance writers of the early twentieth century (including W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston); continues into the twentieth century to investigate post-World War II works (by such writers as Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansbury, and Gwendolyn Brooks); and ends with investigating contemporary African American texts (these may include novels by Toni Morrison and movies directed by Spike Lee).
Corequisite
Take CORE 110 or HNR 150 or an OC, Oral Communication, course previously or concurrently.
Distribution
CD,LIT,NDOffered
Even Year Fall Semester