Nassau
One Education Dr Garden City, NY 11530-6793
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The following is fulfilled by this course:
- Diversity: Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice
- Humanities
Nassau has listed this a core course in the following categories:
The core course can be applied to following SUNY Transfer Paths:
ENG 208
African-American Literature II
Prerequisites: AFR 130 or ENG 207 or permission of the African Studies Department.
(Dual listed with AFR 131)
The course examines the ideas, themes, and aesthetics in literature by African Americans from the 1930s to the present. Diverse writers such as Dorothy West, Malcom X, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Alice Walker, Tony Morrison, and Walter Mosely are read. Writing is an integral component of the course.
SUNY GE-SDES, SHUM; SUNY GEN ED-GHUM; NCC GEN ED-HUM, LIT, PLDI
Offered: Spring