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Mar 13, 2025
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LIT 1020 - American Literature II3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
The objective of this course is to acquaint students with representative selections from the main periods in 20th and 21st century American literature. 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, social class, etc.). As a result of their reading, students will come to appreciate the value of literature and how American literature evolved to its present status as a world-class literature. This course meets the following Raider Core CLO requirement: Embrace Diversity. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Distinguish characteristics of literary forms (poetry, the essay, the short story, etc.)
- Identify primary components of literature such as character, figurative language, plot, prosody, setting, persona, conflict, point of view
- Recognize representative texts and important, diverse authors from 20th and 21st century America
- Explain philosophical beliefs and social contexts that gave rise to various periods and movements in American literature
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Nonfiction forms (essays, speeches)
- Short stories
- Poetry
- Novel
- Drama
- Specific movements in American literature
- Identification and discussion of the diversity of identities and backgrounds that have built US/American literature, moving beyond the mainstream or traditional canon (including African American, European American, Native American, Chicano and Latinx American, Asian American and Pacific Islander, Middle Eastern American, LGBTQ+, working class, and other literatures; a balance of gender across authors; etc.)
- Selected texts which reflect several of the literatures listed above, with overall diverse representation from the time periods or movements studied
Coordinator
Dr. David Howell
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