ENGL 210 Multicultural American Literature (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
Celebrating the rich diversity of American voices, ENGL 210 focuses on the literary contributions of African Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Latinas/Latinos, and Native Americans and introduces the literary genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay as it explores the dominant themes that have shaped the American literary tradition.
Course Content
A. Exploration of the historical, cultural, and literary contexts of American literature with an emphasis on the dominant themes that have shaped the American literary tradition
B. Focus on the literary contributions of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinas/Latinos, European Americans, and Native Americans
C. Multicultural exploration of the literary genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay
D. Approaches to literary criticism
E. Critical analyses of multicultural works of American literature
Student Outcomes
1. Read and interpret particular American literary works as multicultural, intersectional texts.
2. Comprehend the historical and cultural contexts that have shaped the literary contributions of African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinas/Latinos, European Americans, and Native Americans.
3. Identify the specific elements that comprise the literary genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay, and analyze those elements in the literary works assigned.
4. Determine how the literary elements employed shape the author’s central theme.
5. Apply the skills of literary analysis, research, and documentation in writing assignment(s) that critically engage course content.
6. Identify approaches to literary criticism.
7. Analyze how literature and its contexts are relevant to contemporary people, issues, and problems.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of human experience.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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