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Sep 28, 2024
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ENG 345 - Literature of Ethnic Minorities in the U.S. (3 units) CO10
Literature of ethnic groups within the American population, such as American Indians, Blacks, Basques, and Chicanos.
Prerequisite(s): CH 201 ; CH 202 or CH 203 ; Junior or Senior standing.
Units of Lecture: 3
Core Status: Diversity, General Capstone, CO10
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course:
1. Students will be able to describe what forces affect the ways in which individuals grow up within an ethnic group and develop an identity in American culture.
2. Students will be able to describe the perceptions, viewpoints, or life experiences of people in societies or cultures of non-dominant or marginalized groups within the United States.
3. Students will be able to identify the complex elements important to members of diverse cultural groups in relation to their history, values, politics, economy, or beliefs and practices.
4. Students will be able to employ and understand literary terms to analyze course readings.
5. Students will be able to write and think critically about how the literary works characterize minority experience in American literature.
6. Students will be able to critically examine and articulate how one’s identity has developed through one’s education and family and how this impacts one’s worldview.
7. Students will be able to write a final project that synthesizes and explains the cultural context for the literature of ethnic minority writers in America.
8. Students will be able to use advanced search strategies in library research databases and tools to find primary and secondary sources for a presentation or essay.
9. Students will be able to produce a well-supported argument that makes an original contribution to the field and could be submitted for publication in an undergraduate journal.
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