ENG 345 - U.S. Writers of Color

(3 units) CO10

Literature from writers of color in the United States, such as Native Americans, Black peoples, and Chicanxs. (ENG 345 and GRI 345 are cross-listed; credit may be earned in one of the two.)

Prerequisite(s): CH 201 or CH 202 or CH 212; Corequisite: CH 203 or equivalent.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall, Spring, and Summer

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. describe what forces affect the ways in which individuals grow up within an ethnic group and develop an identity in American culture.
2. describe the perceptions, viewpoints, or life experiences of people in societies or cultures of non-dominant or marginalized groups within the United States.
3. identify the complex elements important to members of diverse cultural groups in relation to their history, values, politics, economy, or beliefs and practices.
4. employ and understand literary terms to analyze course readings.
5. write and think critically about how the literary works characterize minority experience in American literature.
6. critically examine and articulate how one’s identity has developed through one’s education and family and how this impacts one’s worldview.
7. write a final project that synthesizes and explains the cultural context for the literature of ethnic minority writers in America.
8. use advanced search strategies in library research databases and tools to find primary and secondary sources for a presentation or essay.
9. 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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