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Dec 23, 2025
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ENG 3370 - African American Literature to 1930
Will study authors, works, genres, and topics in African American literature up to 1930
Requisites: ENG 2010 or 2020 or 250 or 2 courses above ENG 200 or (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Develop students’ ability to recognize and analyze themes in African American poetry, fiction, autobiography, and essays.
- Discuss the development of the African American literary tradition from its beginnings to the early twentieth century.
- Examine the political and social contexts in which African American writing was produced.
- Expand students’ skills for making connections between African American history and literature.
- Introduce students to major figures and themes of the vernacular tradition, the literature of slavery and emancipation, the Reconstruction period, and the early twentieth century.
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