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travel literature, erotic poetry, and technology and literature. Students will
apply critical theories to the works studied, as appropriate.

ENGL 757 SEMINAR IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Former course number 557
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This seminar is an in-depth exploration of the major genres, themes, styles, and
traditions that link literary voices of contemporary African American writers with
their historical literary ancestors. Using representative works in fiction, non-
fiction prose, poetry, oratory, criticism, and film, the course will examine the
African American experience from the cultural, historical, and socio-political
perspective of the African American writer.

ENGL 758 SEMINAR IN AFRICAN LITERATURE
Former course number 558
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This seminar focuses on some of the major works from the 1930s to the present
by Africans throughout the continent. The seminar focuses on literature as a
means to decolonize the mind, advance gender equity, critique and redefine
modernity, preserve history and traditions, and to tell the stories of those who
have been invisible or marginalized. Where appropriate, students will also
examine postcolonial theories, the implications of language, the literary
marketplace, sociopolitical and aesthetic agendas, as well as precolonial
literature.

ENGL 759 SEMINAR IN WORLD LITERATURE
Former course number 559
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 3
This seminar in World Literature comparatively and diachronically examines
themes, genres, periods, cross-currents, and problems in literary history from
antiquity to the present. Its purpose is to expose students to literary traditions
and emerging voices across national, linguistic, and temporal boundaries and to
provide critical tools to enable them to compare literatures and the other arts.
The course will ask students to consider questions of canonicity, dissemination
and intertextuality, aesthetic value, and cultural context.

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