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2023-2024 Undergraduate Academic Catalog-June Update [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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LIT 1010 - American Literature I

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
The objective of this course is to acquaint students with representative selections in early American literature, beginning with pre-Colonial oral traditions and continuing through the 19th century. Students will read a variety of texts, including nonfiction, short stories, poetry, plays, and/or novels. Various movements in American literature will be explained and discussed, along with the social, political, religious, historical, and economic conditions which helped to produce them.  Authors will reflect a variety of backgrounds (gender, race, culture, etc.). As a result of their reading, students will come to appreciate the value of literature and how American literature evolved. This course meets the following Raider Core CLO requirement: Exhibit Curiosity. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Read and discuss representative texts and important authors from Precolonial through 19th century America
  • Recognize philosophical beliefs and/or social contexts that gave rise to various periods and genres in American literature
  • Examine literature’s role in U.S. history and in the establishment of an “American identity”
  • Write clearly about literature
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Course Topics
  • Literary forms
    • Oral traditions
    • Nonfiction forms (oratory, essays, narratives)
    • Short stories
    • Poetry
    • Novel
    • Drama
  • Primary components of literature (e.g. plot, setting, persona, figurative language, etc.)
  • Ways to approach, read, and analyze literature
  • Specific movements in American literature
  • Identification and discussion of the diversity of identities that built early US / American literature (inclusion beyond the mainstream or traditional canon when possible for the periods studied, by including African American, Native American, Asian American, European American, and other literatures)
  • Literary texts which reflect several of the literatures listed above, with overall diverse representation from the time periods studied
Coordinator
Amy Murre


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