WGSS 267
"Ain't I a Woman?": An Introduction to Black Women's Writing in America
Fall 2016
Division II
Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed
AFR 267 / AMST 267 / ENGL 267
This is not the current course catalog
Class Details
This Gateway course offers a survey of African American women’s writing from the nineteenth century to the present day with an equal emphasis on primary literary texts and feminist criticism. We will trace the development of a black womanist/feminist tradition across various genres and disciplines, beginning with the work of abolitionists such as Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Sojourner Truth and working our way through key texts of the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, and post-60s Black Feminist writing. Our discussions will focus on the black feminist tradition’s engagement with race, gender, class, and sexuality as intersecting axes of difference. Writers that we will read include: Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, Suzan-Lori Parks, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Hortense Spillers, KimberlĂ© Williams Crenshaw. This course fulfills the EDI requirement by examining the intersection of different minoritizing processes in the experiences and writing of African American women in the US.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 2015
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 2015
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
3 short response papers (approx. 4 pages each) and one final 7-8-page paper; in class presentations, participation in class discussions
Extra Info:
may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
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
Enrollment Preferences:
sophomores and first-year students who have not yet taken an ENGL Gateway course
Distributions:
Division II
Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes:
meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under ENGL; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under AFR, AMST or WGSS
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
WGSS 267 Division II AFR 267 Division II AMST 267 Division II ENGL 267 Division I
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
WGSS 267 Division II AFR 267 Division II AMST 267 Division II ENGL 267 Division I
Attributes:
ENGL Criticism Courses
ENGL 200-level Gateway Courses
ENGL 200-level Gateway Courses
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WGSS 267 - 01 (F) SEM Intro to Black Women's Writing
WGSS 267 - 01 (F) SEM Intro to Black Women's WritingDivision II Writing Skills Exploring Diversity InitiativeMarina BilbijaMW 8:30 am - 9:45 am
Hopkins Hall 400 (Rogers Room)2015
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