ENGL 423 - Ethnic American Women’s Literature After 1900

Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-3; Diversity
Selected authors and topics in ethnic American women’s fiction, autobiography, drama, and/or poetry by African-American, Latina, American Indian, and Asian-American writers.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-3 - Upper-Division Arts or Humanities (Humanities); Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area 3 requirements (lower division Area C requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Demonstrate (a) an ability to analyze selected passages from literary texts and (b) an ability to use such analyses both to illuminate and complicate a reading of the texts in which these passages occur.
Take various critical approaches to fiction, literary nonfiction, drama, and/or poetry by ethnic American women writers.
Understand the historical and social contexts affecting cultural production of American literature, and the relationships between gender, class, race, and ethnicity within and between ethnic groups and dominant society.
Achieve a working knowledge of the histories, traditions, heterogeneity, and intersections of various ethnic groups in the U.S. as they are manifested in literature by women.
Express their interpretations in cogent, well-organized prose (which may involve drafting, revision, finding library resources, compiling bibliographies, applying research).

GE-UD-3. Upper-division Arts or Humanities Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply principles, methodologies, values systems, and thought processes employed in the arts and humanities.
Analyze cultural production as an expression of, or reflection upon, what it means to be human.
Demonstrate how the perspectives of the arts or humanities are used by informed, engaged, and reflective citizens to benefit local and global communities.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U. S. cultural groups and the resilience and agency of group members;
identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures;
analyze the intersection of the categories of race and gender as they affect cultural group members’ lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities;
recognize the way that multiple differences (including, for example, gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within cultural groups complicate individual and group identities.