AMST 220
Introduction to African American Literature
Fall 2014
Division II
Writing Skills
Cross-listed
ENGL 220 / AFR 220
This is not the current course catalog
Class Details
What does it mean, socially, culturally, historically, personally, and spiritually, to be African American? No single, simple answer suffices, but African American literature as a genre is defined by its ongoing engagement with this complex question. This course will examine a series of texts that in various ways epitomize the fraught literary grappling with the entailments of American blackness.
Readings will include texts by Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, and Ishmael Reed.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1481
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1481
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
writing assignments for the course will total 20 pages, distributed over 4 papers
Prerequisites:
a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam, or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences:
English majors and Africana Studies concentrators
Distributions:
Division II
Writing Skills
Notes:
meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ENGL; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AMST or AFR
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENGL 220 Division I AFR 220 Division II AMST 220 Division II
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENGL 220 Division I AFR 220 Division II AMST 220 Division II
Attributes:
AFR Interdepartmental Electives
AMST Arts in Context Electives
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
ENGL 200-level Gateway Courses
ENGL Literary Histories C
AMST Arts in Context Electives
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
ENGL 200-level Gateway Courses
ENGL Literary Histories C
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AMST 220 - 01 (F) SEM African American Literature
AMST 220 - 01 (F) SEM African American LiteratureDivision II Writing SkillsMWF 11:00 am - 12:15 pm
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