CRITICAL AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES IN BLACK WOMEN'S WRITINGS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing 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: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major literary forms and their functions in the history of black women’s writing. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe the goals, challenges, and questions raised by the thematic and aesthetic choices of black women creators. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe the theoretical frameworks that black women use to make sense of their social position. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Describe the critical interventions black women intellectuals have made in traditional scholarly disciplines. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop a research project that contextualizes the frameworks Black women use to shape representations of race and gender across a broad range of literary texts and other forms of creative expression. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify major literary forms and their functions in the history of black women’s writing. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe the goals, challenges, and questions raised by the thematic and aesthetic choices of black women creators. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Describe the theoretical frameworks that black women use to make sense of their social position. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Describe the critical interventions black women intellectuals have made in traditional scholarly disciplines. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Develop a research project that contextualizes the frameworks Black women use to shape representations of race and gender across a broad range of literary texts and other forms of creative expression. Audience: Graduate