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Winter 2021
Apr 28,2024 |
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| ENG 253 - Survey of American Literature |
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Associated Term:
Winter 2021
Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: 1. Distinguish between connotation and denotation and demonstrate how the connotative language helps shape major points of a literary text (poems, story, play). 2. Demonstrate ability to use interpretive frameworks to investigate contextual meanings of literature. 3. Recognize historical and mythological viewpoints and central themes and how these viewpoints establish different worldviews and value systems. 4. Understand international influences on the United States, including immigration and power relations between countries. 5. Understand the complexity of national issues and their influence on the literature, particularly political, educational, and religious goals, the use of different languages, the establishment of social goals, and legal and economic systems. 6. Explore how the literature reflects and shapes perceptions of critical social issues such as slavery, treatment of Native Americans, attitudes toward immigrants, and the rights of women. 7. Consider the role of community in literature, what are considered the center and the margins of community, and the boundaries between groups of people as well as what establishes a sense of belonging. 8. Appreciate the different ways freedom is defined and established, including rights, choices, and civic order and responsibilities. 9. Understand oneself better as an American, or a person living in American, and as a human being. 10. Consider persona identity issues based on race, class, gender, religion, education, and sexual preference, and how those issues are addressed in literature. 11. Experience different writers' sense of place, the land and sense of home. 12. Understand why certain American authors have been included in the literary canon and others excluded, specifically women and ethnic minorities. 13. Develop an understanding of the major changes in literary genres and style, why certain genres are studied in the academy and others excluded, and why certain stories are repeated each generation in different forms. Required Materials: Technical Requirements: |
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