Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to selected works. This course introduces selected works from the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas from the eighteenth century to the present. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected prose, poetry, and drama. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to selected works. None This course includes a study of contemporary literature.
Emphasis is placed on literary and cultural trends of selected texts.
Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to the literature. This course provides an analytical study of the works of several Southern authors. Emphasis is placed on the historical and cultural contexts, themes, aesthetic features of individual works, and biographical backgrounds of the authors. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and discuss selected works. This course provides a survey of the development of African-American literature from its beginnings to the present.