AAS 3110 - Harlem Renaissance: African American Literature of the Early 20th Century

• Students will be able to describe a wide range of significant Black modern literary texts.
• Students will be able to conduct research in literary criticism and African American studies using primary works from the Harlem Renaissance.
• Students will be able to analyze and interpret Harlem Renaissance writings.
• Students will be able to discuss alternative Black transnational modernism in literary texts.
• Students will be able to analyze issues important to authors of literary texts of the Modernist period and relate these to the cultural, historical, and political context of this time.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an empathetic understanding of numerous complex issues facing African American communities in the interwar period as they are expressed in Harlem Renaissance literature.
• Students will be able to describe the biases and assumptions embedded in their preconceived notions about the interwar African American experience and demonstrate openness to interactions with culturally different others.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions of literature from the Harlem Renaissance and articulate answers to these questions from multiple cultural and academic perspectives.
• Students will be able to demonstrate both curiosity and respect about African American culture, as well as an understanding of cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication in African American culture.