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Language Arts
Title: African-American Literature, One Half Unit (Online)
Credit: 0.5 units
Lessons: 12 lessons, 12 submitted
Exams: 3 exams
Grading: Computer Evaluated
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course is a survey of the black experience in the United States, beginning in the antebellum period and ending with contemporary drama. Readings are taken from various genres—autobiography, poetry, the novel, the short story, and drama; and various time periods—antebellum, Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression, the 1950s, and contemporary.

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Textbook Information
Item 1
Author: Chapman
 Title: Black Voices
 ISBN: 0-451-62660-5
 Edition: '68
 New price: $5.85
Item 2
Author: Douglass
 Title: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
 ISBN: 0-451-52994-4
 Edition: '05
 New price: $3.95
Item 3
Author: Hansberry
 Title: A Raisin in the Sun
 ISBN: 0-679-75533-0
 Edition: Vintage '94
 New price: $4.70
Item 4
Author: Marshall
 Title: Brown Girl, Brownstones
 ISBN: 978-1-55861-498-7
 Edition: '06
 Publisher: Feminist Press
 New price: $11.65
Item 5
Author: Wilson
 Title: Fences
 ISBN: 0-452-26401-4
 Edition: '86
 New price: $7.50
Item 6
Author: Wright
 Title: Native Son
 ISBN: 0-06-080977-9, 0-06-053348-x
 Edition: '40
 New price: $8.90
Text total: $42.55

Fee:
High School fee: $150.00

Total Cost:
High School fee: $150.00
Administrative fee: $25.00
Texts, etc.: $42.55

Total cost: $217.55
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