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Spring 2025
Nov 21,2024
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ENG 253 - Survey of American Literature
This course acquaints students with representative works of important American writers, literary forms, and significant currents of thought. Primary emphasis is on reading and engaging with the literary materials, with an introduction to practices of literary interpretation. Questions of genre, authorship, aesthetics, and literary movements may be examined in their relationships to social, political, and intellectual movements of the United States. The course will draw on material produced prior to the American Civil War period.
4.000 Credit hours
40.000 TO 48.000 Lecture hours

Syllabus Available
Levels: Credit
Schedule Types: Lecture

Arts & Humanities Division
Writing/Literature Department

Course Attributes:
Tuition, Arts and Letters

Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Levels:     
      Skills Development
      Credit
May not be enrolled in one of the following Colleges:     
      College Now

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