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A study of African American dramatic literature to explore the complex ways in which the black experience is constructed and presented by playwrights. Students may have an opportunity to experience a theatrical production in New York City. More specifically, this course is divided into distinct sections. It includes a historical overview of early Black theatre throughout the diaspora. It considers how mid-twentieth century playwrights like Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, and Ntozake Shange shape the aesthetics and discourses within Black theatre, and in doing so, create trajectories for contemporary Black playwrights, who also explore the social, political and cultural experiences of Africana people.

A study of African American dramatic literature to explore the complex ways in which the black experience is constructed and presented by playwrights. Students may have an opportunity to experience a theatrical production in New York City. More specifically, this course is divided into distinct sections. It includes a historical overview of early Black theatre throughout the diaspora. It considers how mid-twentieth century playwrights like Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, and Ntozake Shange shape the aesthetics and discourses within Black theatre, and in doing so, create trajectories for contemporary Black playwrights, who also explore the social, political and cultural experiences of Africana people.

English Composition I is a writing intensive course designed to introduce you to college writing and critical thinking about the purpose of education, the role of the university and the relationship between language, thinking and identity. Drawing on readings from a variety of genres—as well as your own experience and knowledge—we will reflect and write about issues related to learning, literacy, identity and engage in critical thinking about issues in higher education. Writing assignments will build on these themes while exploring a variety of genres as you will be encouraged to develop your own unique voice and imagination while developing rhetorical awareness, critical thinking and reading, writing and research skills. This course encourages you to understand that writing is a process. To be a writer means engaging in a constant process of rewriting—in addition to reading and thinking about the writing of others. Thus, you will be encouraged to develop strategies for all stages of the writing process: free writing, brainstorming, drafting, collaborating, peer review, revising and presenting. Furthermore, the mission of this course is to carry forward and transmit to you a liberating tradition of reading and writing in the hopes that you will develop a lifelong interest in research as well as local, national and global issues. You may then use theses skills in your and the world’s best interest

English Composition I is a writing intensive course designed to introduce you to college writing and critical thinking about the purpose of education, the role of the university and the relationship between language, thinking and identity. Drawing on readings from a variety of genres—as well as your own experience and knowledge—we will reflect and write about issues related to learning, literacy, identity and engage in critical thinking about issues in higher education. Writing assignments will build on these themes while exploring a variety of genres as you will be encouraged to develop your own unique voice and imagination while developing rhetorical awareness, critical thinking and reading, writing and research skills. This course encourages you to understand that writing is a process. To be a writer means engaging in a constant process of rewriting—in addition to reading and thinking about the writing of others. Thus, you will be encouraged to develop strategies for all stages of the writing process: free writing, brainstorming, drafting, collaborating, peer review, revising and presenting. Furthermore, the mission of this course is to carry forward and transmit to you a liberating tradition of reading and writing in the hopes that you will develop a lifelong interest in research as well as local, national and global issues. You may then use theses skills in your and the world’s best interest