ENGH 349: African American Literature: Reconstruction to 1903

ENGH 349-001: African Amer Lit: Recons-1903
(Fall 2022)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM

Innovation Hall 215G - Hybrid

Section Information for Fall 2022

ENGH 349-001 is a hybrid section with mandatory in-person class meetings and a significant online component.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Emphasizes several major writers from Reconstruction to beginning of 20th century, concluding with W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk . Concentrating on evolution of African American fiction and poetry as well as political and social discourses on "race," explores how authors such as Frances E.W. Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Pauline Hopkins, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Anna Julia Cooper, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Booker T. Washington, and DuBois shaped the foundation for 20th-century African American literary art and aesthetics. Limited to three attempts.
Recommended Prerequisite: Satisfaction of University requirements in 100-level English and in Mason Core literature.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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