ENGL& 245 - American Literature II: Civil War to WWI

Credits: 5
A study of American literature from the Civil War to World War I, with special attention given to the rise of realism and naturalism, including the works of Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Chopin, Crane, Norris and Gilman.

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 the Civil War to World War I.
Apply questions and problems of 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.