ENGL& 244 - American Literature I: American Literature to 1860

Credits: 5
A study of the development of American literature from early Native American storytellers to 1860, focusing on Puritanism, the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Transcendentalism as literary movements. Covers cultural, historical, and literary concepts that characterize these movements.

Enrollment Requirement: Eligible for ENGL 99 or instructor consent.

Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Discuss selected American writers from early Native American storytellers through Melville.
Apply questions and problems posed by earlier American writers to contemporary American life.
Discuss how earlier American writers offer universal insights into the human condition.

Program Outcomes
Demonstrate college-level reading skills by summarizing, analyzing, interpreting, synthesizing, and evaluating college texts; and develop an awareness of the approaches writers use for different audiences, genres, and rhetorical situations.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.