Studies in American Literature Since 1900
This course focuses on texts written by American authors. This advanced seminar course varies in topic and may concentrate on a selection of works by a major American writer or a particular literary movement or theme in the period since 1900.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of American literature and culture with focused attention to a major or distinctive feature of the American literary tradition.
This course focuses on texts written by American authors. This advanced seminar course varies in topic and may concentrate on a selection of works by a major American writer or a particular literary movement or theme in the period since 1900.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of American literature and culture with focused attention to a major or distinctive feature of the American literary tradition.
Pre-requisites: UCWR 110 and one 200-level English course.
The Black Athlete
Observable through historical figures such as Florence Griffith Joyner (Flo-Jo), Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Wilma Rudolph and Muhammad Ali to contemporary figures such as Colin Kaepernick, Caster Semenya, and Serena Williams, sports have been a medium where the representation of racial blackness has been cultivated and contested culturally, socially, and politically. This class will look at various Black athletic figures and representations of race and sports in literature (fiction, non-fiction, and poetry) and visual culture (film and visual art). This course will explore how black representation in sports intersects with politics, black gender identity, and the project of Imperial warfare. The range of reading for this course spans from academic scholarship to primary texts like memoir, poetry and film that centers racial blackness in relation to sports. Ultimately, this course poses the questions¿How are Black athletes represented in the world of sport? In what ways is sport more than a form of entertainment? How can sport be the text or subtext for critical inquiry for Blackness, gender, sexuality, nationality, labor, class, protest, body image, etc?
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