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ENGL 2012 - American Literature: Civil War to Present

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None
Course Description: This college literature course intended for all students will analyze and explore American Literature from the Civil War to the present. Typical writers may include Clemens, Crane, Chopin, James, Cather, Fitzgerald, Hughes, Faulkner, Thurston, Hemingway, and Frost.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 7 Human Diversity

Prerequisite(s): Assessment score placement in RDNG 1000  or above, or completion of RDNG 0900  or RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Completion of ENGL 1021  with a grade of C or higher.

Major Content
  1. American Literature: Civil War to Present Realistic/Naturalistic period Close reading Historical and cultural analysis Literary elements
  2. Modernism Period Close reading Historical and cultural analysis Literary elements
  3. Post- modernism to Contemporary Close reading Historical and cultural developments Literary elements

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in American Literature from the Civil War to the present.
  2. Analyze those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
  3. Respond critically to works in American Literature from the 1860s to the present.
  4. Analyze and articulate the similarities and differences between their attitudes, behaviors, concepts, and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry and those of the writers, characters, and situations encountered in American Literature.
  5. Analyze basic literary elements in works studied.
  6. Analyze the development and changing meanings of group identities in U.S. history and culture.
  7. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in American Literature.
  8. Articulate an informed reaction to the experiences and contributions of varied groups that shape contemporary American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.


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