Course Catalog • African & African-American Studies

Course Description

An introduction to the life and work of Langston Hughes. The course will examine the uniqueness of Hughes’s poetry, fiction, autobiography, and character sketches as literary expression and as a means of understanding African-American life and culture. (Same as ENGL 495.) Instructor: Sarah Young.

Only available for undergraduate credit.

For 1 hour of credit: Three written assignments; final examination.

1

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• Hughes. The Big Sea, Hill and Wang, 2001.
• Hughes. Not without Laughter, Scribner, 1995.
• Rampersad and Rossel, eds. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
• Lunsford. The Everyday Writer, 3rd ed., Bedford/St. Martin, 2005.

CD (separate purchase):

• Voice of the Poet: Langston Hughes and accompanying booklet of poems and commentary, 2002.
  
  (Online purchase information for the CD available in syllabus.)

For 2 hours of credit: Five written assignments; final examination.

2

Textbooks (separate purchase):

• All of the texts and the CD listed for 1 hour of credit, plus:
• Hughes. The Best of Simple, Hill and Wang, 2000.