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Name of Learning Opportunity: | |
Mode of Delivery: | Guided Independent Study
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Study Group/Residency Enrollment Caps: | Sep cap: 15
Nov cap: 15
Jan cap: 15
Mar cap: 15
May A cap: 15
May B cap: 15 |
Region: | Center for Distance Learning |
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Offered in these terms: | Sep |
Credits: | 4 |
Liberal Study? | YES |
Level: | LOWER |
Area of Study: | |
Subject: | Literature |
GenEd Area 1: 7. Humanities | Fully |
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Available Collegewide: | N |
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Description: |
This course offers an introduction to the
development of literary styles and genres spanning the early European exploration
of America through the Civil War. The course will examine individual authors
and the motivating impulses for their writings, along with the broader
contexts in which those authors wrote. Students will not only gain understanding
of the literature itself, but also will gain a general sense of American
political, cultural and social history. Readings will be drawn from a diverse
selection of writers within the time period, and will include a diverse
selection of types: personal writing, autobiography, historical exposition,
poetry, correspondence, political oratory, religious oratory and fiction.
Students will read selections in chronological order to strengthen their
historical understandings. Coursework also includes significant discussion.
Written work includes informal personal response (a reading journal), formal
personal response (short essays), critical response and research writing
using secondary critical materials.
This course fully meets the General
Education requirement in Humanities.
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