AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ACTIVISM (19TH & 20TH CENTURIES)

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities 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 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the real-world impact of some of the important 20th century attempts by African American women writers and scholars to construct different accounts of women’s experience in the slave system and in early decades of freedom. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Differentiate and compare the varying impacts of fiction and biographical texts and historical works to African American women’s activism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Develop critical reading and writing skills about racial representation, resistance under repression, and the specifics of organizing principles of women’s movements. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop a scholarly project through extensive archival research about African American Women’s activism. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the real-world impact of some of the important 20th century attempts by African American women writers and scholars to construct different accounts of women’s experience in the slave system and in early decades of freedom. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Differentiate and compare the varying impacts of fiction and biographical texts and historical works to African American women’s activism. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Develop critical reading and writing skills about racial representation, resistance under repression, and the specifics of organizing principles of women’s movements. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Develop a scholarly project through extensive archival research about African American Women’s activism. Audience: Graduate