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AMERICAN LITERATURE: 1865-PRESENT
Liberal Study
Lower Level
Credits: 4
Meets General Education Requirement In: Humanities
Term(s) Offered (Subject to Change) : Spring 1.
Course Description:
Study literary styles and genres from the Civil War through the present. The course will examine individual authors and the motivating impulses for their writings; it places American literature in historical perspective. The course is organized around these basic areas: The Age of Expansion 1865-1915, Modern American Literature 1915-1945, Approaching a Millennium 1945-Present. Assignments include significant reading, online discussion and a variety of written work (personal response, short essays, short critical responses and use of secondary critical materials).
This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Humanities.
