Interdisciplinary Arts 0204 - Who, the People?

In the midst of our current fraught political moment and landscape, students will track, interrogate, compare, and contrast the manner in which Black and other poets of color engage race and dispensations of American politics. How do various poetic approaches enact the political concerns of the day? Can the making of art create additional problems or concerns? Students should expect to draft essays that close read and think through numerous poems within their respective historical contexts. What can these poems teach us about the function of American Letters as a kind of chronicle? Students may read and consider the work of Robert Hayden, Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. Ethelbert Miller, and Terrance Hayes, among others.

Culture, Humanities, and Languages Multiple Cultural Perspectives Students are expected to spend six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time.