MAJOR AUTHORS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing; not open to special students Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Literature Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major 20th and 21st century African American writers of fiction, poetry, essays and drama. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain how African American writers engage with modernism, post-modernism and the literary avant-garde. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe how African American writers in the first half of the 20th c. wrote from familiarity with the living memory of slavery and oral and written histories of migration to the North. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop research projects that demonstrate strong analytical and writing skills. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop a theoretical framework for a literary research project and for an oral presentation that displays strong leadership skills. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major 20th and 21st century African American writers of fiction, poetry, essays and drama. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explain how African American writers engage with modernism, post-modernism and the literary avant-garde. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe how African American writers in the first half of the 20th c. wrote from familiarity with the living memory of slavery and oral and written histories of migration to the North. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop research projects that demonstrate strong analytical and writing skills. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop a theoretical framework for a literary research project and for an oral presentation that displays strong leadership skills. Audience: Graduate