ENGL331
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Inventing America (American Literature to 1865)
Course Title
Inventing America (American Literature to 1865)
Course Description
This course focuses on American literature written before the Civil War. Students will explore themes such as religious belief, captivity and slavery, and America as the new Eden; movements such as colonial literature, early national literature, and American Romanticism; and topics such as Native American writing, the formation of national identity, and the emergence of a distinctly American literature. Authors might include Edward Taylor, Ben Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Mary Rowlandson, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Rebecca Harding Davis, Edgar Allan Poe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Specific readings and topics will vary by instructor. This course is designed for majors and non-majors interested in studying literature. This course meets criteria for Writing Intensive and Aesthetic Reasoning
Pass/Fail Only?
No
Faculty Permission Required?
No
Credit Hours Min
3
Instructional Method
Lecture
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Learning Objective 1
Objective
Identify major literary, historical, social, and/or philosophical movements of American literature before the Civil War and explain how they influence authors and/or works
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Learning Objective 2
Objective
Identify the elements involved in creating artistic works
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Learning Objective 3
Objective
Apply appropriate strategies to interpret and assess artistic experiences and works
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Learning Objective 4
Objective
Analyze a diversity of artistic works within the context of various cultural and historical epochs
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Learning Objective 5
Objective
Produce written texts that reflect a knowledge and understanding of disciplinary conventions in terms of audience expectations, genre conventions, and/or citation practices.
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Learning Objective 6
Objective
Employ recursive strategies of brainstorming, drafting, revising, and editing during the writing process to complete a major writing project or series of written assignments.