ENGL& 244 American Literature I (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 221 - CCN
Course Description
Survey of American literature from its early origins to the Civil War.
Course Content
A. Early American and 19th century literary genres, movements, cultural history, and trends
B. Analysis of texts, emphasizing literary content, theme, critical approaches, and theories
C. Historical, multicultural, and social contexts within works of literature
D. Early American and 19th century representation of positionality, power, and privilege
E. Critical research methods relevant to era and literary expression
F. Era’s relevance on global discourses (e.g. Puritanism, slavery, and Civil War Legacies)
Student Outcomes
1. Read and interpret representative works of literature in characteristic genres (e.g. novels, essays, drama, poetry, biography, and/or literature criticism) in order to understand how genre cocreates meaning.
2. Analyze a work of literature in order to examine its social and historical contexts (e.g. Puritan and early American colonialism, Native American relations, Louisiana Purchase, slavery, abolitionism, Mason-Dixon line, The Civil War).
3. Explain how cultural history, literary genres, and trends helped to shape one another (e.g. Puritanism, American Gothic, Transcendentalism, Abolitionist literatures).
4. Analyze the representation of diverse, underrepresented groups in American literature of this era (specifically regarding colonialism, immigration, American expansionism and annexation/borders) in order to examine impact on/of identities and positionalities, privilege, and power.
5. Critically engage the course content through research, writing, and synthesis of course-specific content.
6. Analyze elements of the era’s literature and its contexts in order to understand the impact on contemporary people, issues, and discourses.
Degree Outcomes
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
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