Languages, Literatures, and the Arts
AFAM 3880. African American Folklore. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN AM FOLKLORE.
Prerequisite: ENGL 3010 or permission of department.
African American folk expressions: their functions and their relationships with folk expressions of other peoples. Folk speech (proverbs, riddles, signifying, playing the dozens), folk narrative (animal tales, slave stories, modern legends, jokes, toasts, rap songs), folk songs (African songs, gospel songs, work songs, ballads, blues songs).
Not offered on a regular basis.
AFAM (DRAM) 4490/6490. African American Women in Cinema: Image and Aesthetics. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: WOMEN CINEMA COLOR.
Undergraduate prerequisite: Permission of department.
Selected films by and about African and African American women. A historical/critical overview of the presentation of these women in cinema with emphasis on contemporary African and African American women film makers.
Not offered on a regular basis.
AFAM(ROML) 4860/6860. Topics in Afro-Hispanic Identity. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: AFR HISPANIC IDENT.
Representations of Africa and African American culture in Hispanic Literature by writers of African descent. By covering a variety of genres, the course will provide discussion about a cultural identity that is constantly in dialogue with dominant discourses. The course will incorporate critical texts.
CMLT 3150. Introduction to Modern African Literature. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO MOD AFR LIT.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
The literature of twentieth-century Africa in translation with emphasis on the African novel.
Offered every year.
DRAM 4480/6480. History of African American Drama and Theatre. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIST OF AF AM DRAMA.
The emergence of a distinct and conscious African American theatre in the United States.
Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.
ENGL (AFAM) 3230. Development of African American Literature. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN AMER LIT.
Prerequisite: CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400.
African American literature since 1773, particularly 1830 to the present: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Dorothy West, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and August Wilson, including diverse voices rooted in the folk origins for literary forms.
Offered every year.
ENGL (AFAM) 4620. African American Poetry. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN AMER POETRY.
Prerequisite: Two of the following: CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400.
African American poetry from the colonial period to the present, including slave and folk songs of the mid-nineteenth century, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's, and contemporary poetry. Emphasis on such figures as Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, and others.
Offered every year.
ENGL (AFAM) 4630. African American Fiction. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRI AMER FICTION.
Prerequisite: Two of the following: CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400.
Important African American stories and novels from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including works by such authors as Frances Harper, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison.
Offered every year.
ENGL (AFAM) 4880. Topics in African American Literature. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: TOPICS AFR AMER LIT.
Prerequisite: Two of the following: CMLT 2111 or CMLT 2210 or CMLT 2212 or CMLT 2220 or CMLT 2400 or ENGL 2310 or ENGL 2320 or ENGL 2330 or ENGL 2340 or ENGL 2400.
Selected topics in African American literature such as African American autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, and Black American literature and aesthetics.
Offered every year.
SPCM (AFAM) 4810. African American Rhetoric and Communication. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN AM RHET COM.
The history and criticism of the communication of African American speakers, with emphasis upon oral rhetoric relating to social-political development since 1860.
Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year.
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