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AMERICAN LITERATURE II - ENGL 2132 (3 Credit Hours)
Description: This course will present a broad overview of American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Students will utilize various critical approaches and reading strategies as they examine important authors and themes of this period. The course will pay special attention to multiple cultures and perspectives. Some of the authors that will be included in this course are Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Mark Twain, Langston Hughes, Kate Chopin, Maxine Hong, Robert Frost, and Raymond Carver.
Prerequisites: English 1102
Course Structure:
English 2132 is comprised of ten units designed to be taught during a 15-week semester.
These units each address a different genre of American Literature. Those ten units are:
- Whitman/Dickinson
- Native American
- American Realism: Twain and James
- African-American
- Gender
- Southern
- Ethnic Voices
- Drama
- Modern Poetry
- Post-modernism
Course Objectives:
- Identify and apply a variety of critical approaches to literature.
- Identify the important literary periods and themes of American Literature from the mid-19th Century to the present.
- Demonstrate knowledge of a diversity of American cultures through the study of literature.
- Apply various reading strategies to text in order to summarize, synthesize, analyze, interpret, and evaluate the literature.
- Write a paper on a topic in American literature using MLA style and a variety of sources that shows original thought, research, and an ability to assimilate and synthesize the ideas of others on the topic.
- Enhance technological skills.