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• LIT 201: American Literature II

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A survey of representative American writers from 1860 to the present, including Whitman, Twain, James, Crane, Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, and Faulkner.
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• LIT 202: African American Literature I

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A survey of African American writing from the Middle Passage through the first decade of the 20th century. Authors include Wheatley, Equiano, Douglass, Jacobs, Wells-Barnett, Du Bois, Washington, Chesnutt, Weldon Johnson, and others, with an emphasis on the historical contexts of slavery and Jim Crow and on the oral/vernacular roots of the black literary tradition.
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• LIT 203: African American Literature II

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Continuation of LIT 202. A survey of African American writing from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Authors include Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baraka, Brooks, Sanchez, Morrison, Butler, and others, with an emphasis on the historical forces and social and cultural movements that have shaped black writing in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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• LIT 204: New Black Women Writers in America

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Survey of black women writers of America. Examines themes and influences on American and African-American literary contexts.
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• LIT 205: Harlem Renaissance

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the historical and cultural movement of the 1920's known as the Harlem Renaissance.
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• LIT 207: Life and Times of Frederick Douglass

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  This course examines the courageous life and times of an American reformer and his influence on slavery, abolitionism, suffrage, and temperance movements in the development of America.
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• LIT 213: Asian American Literature

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  Survey of representative Asian American authors from their earliest works at the turn of the twentieth century to contemporary works, examined in the context of the changing cultural, economic, and political experiences of Americans of Asian descent.
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• LIT 219: Literature for Young Children

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A critical study of the literature for young children for prospective specialists in early grades.
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• LIT 220: Children's Literature

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A critical study of literature for children, setting standards for evaluation and appreciation.
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• LIT 230: English Literature I

  3.00 Credits

  West Chester University of Pennsylvania

  
  A survey of English literature from Anglo-Saxon writing through the 18th century.
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