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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Literature from the colonial period through the Harlem Renaissance. Slave narratives, rhetoric of abolition, formal and vernacular aesthetics. Such writers as Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Paul L. Dunbar, Charles W. Chesnutt, James Weldon Johnson,W.E.B. Du Bois, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Sterling Brown, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes. This course is the same as English 64.2. Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Literature from 1930 to the present. Naturalism and protest, the Black Aesthetic, women's literature. Such writers as Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, Alice Walker,Toni Morrison. This course is the same as English 64.3. Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits African American music from its African roots to the present. Synthesis of tradition and distinct African elements in American musical culture. This course is the same as Music 10.1.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Origin, early development, and history of jazz to the present. Required reading and listening. This course is the same as Music 10.4 and 20.4. Prerequisite: Core Studies 2.2 or Core Curriculum 1.3 or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Historical survey of the contributions of Black art to American culture. Study of the Black experience through works of art. This course is part of the joint program in elementary education with a specialization in African American studies and is open to all students.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Lectures, studies, and workshops in Black theater. Liaison with professional and community theater. This course is the same as Theater 41.4.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Survey of twentieth-century fiction, drama, poetry of sub- Saharan Africa.Works by such authors as Achebe, Ekwensi, Emecheta, Ngugi, Oyono, Laye, Dadie, Clark, Sembene, Senghor, Soyinka. This course is the same as Comparative Literature 32.2. Prerequisite: English 1.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Race and American political and literary culture from the American Revolution to urban modernism. The South as a paradigm of American culture, constructions of "race,"tensions between democratic ideals and elaborate race and class distinctions. Readings from Thomas Jefferson, slave narratives, Herman Melville, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Mark Twain, Uncle Remus, Charles Chesnutt, and others. Cultural legacies and entanglements of minstrelsy, the blues, and jazz. This course is the same as American Studies 20.2.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits African American men, manhood, and masculinities in American and African American culture. Examination of literary, folk, popular, and political texts by men and women, whites and blacks. Prerequisite: English 1 or 1.7.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Black women novelists, short story writers, and essayists. Cross-cultural comparisons with African and Caribbean women novelists. Readings of selected essays in feminist criticism. This course is the same as English 64.4 and Women's Studies 46. Prerequisite: one of the following: English 1, or 1.7.
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