Course details

Name: ENGL - 565

Title: BLACK AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS

Section: 11

Semester: Summer - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
This course explores the writings of African American women. The works will be analyzed from sociohistorical and cultural perspectives, and significant attention will be given to the unique strategies and structures distinguishing an African American female aesthetic and critical tradition. Authors to be studied may include Fauset, Harper, Hopkins, Hurston, Jacobs, Larsen, Morrison, Shange, Walker, Wells, and Wheatley. Class presentations and seminar research paper will be required, as well as asynchronous work.

Last updated on 2022-12-05 By Knight Melinda (knightm)

Schedule: Wednesday From 4:00 pm To 7:30 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Other American (TE 1d)
• Post-1900 (1d)
• Ethnic Studies (3b)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Graduate (BA/MA)

Teaching Faculty: Knight Melinda (knightm)

Is course canceled: No