ENGL 201 American Literature I

This course surveys a range of work produced in the United States of America from the time of the European immigrations of the 1600s through the post-Civil War era. Representative literary works by men and women from diverse ethnic, racial, and social groups are studied in their historical, social, political, and economic context for what they both reflect and reveal about the evolving American experience-including fiction, nonfiction, and writings from the American Revolution. This course is writing intensive.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGL 121

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. Identify and apply literary terms, concepts, critical strategies for literary analysis, and stylistic characteristics in the texts studied.
2. Pose questions about, analyze, and interpret texts according to themes that reflect the human condition such as economic, ethical, historical, religious, personal, political, and/or social issues.
   
3. Identify and discuss characteristics of different periods of American literature, from multiple perspectives and in various cultural, religious, historical, and literary contexts to reach unique conclusions about the evolving American experience.
   
4. Analyze how literature reflects and illuminates a multitude of human values and experiences, making it relevant to today's world.
5. Use evidence from literary texts and secondary texts to create effective literary analysis.
6. Use appropriate research and documentation strategies to create effective literary analysis.
7. Assess and communicate a critical understanding of the literature, in meaning and craft, and exchange these ideas with others.
8. Recognize and understand basic historical events and philosophical or religious terms as applicable to each unit.

Course Objectives

1. Identify and apply literary terms, concepts, critical strategies for literary analysis, and stylistic characteristics in the texts studied.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP1

   Program Goal(s)

   Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

   Describe the aesthetic and structural characteristics of literature from different genres, literary periods, and perspectives.

2. Pose questions about, analyze, and interpret texts according to themes that reflect the human condition such as economic, ethical, historical, religious, personal, political, and/or social issues.
   

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP3

   Program Goal(s)

   Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

   Explain how literature reflects the human condition, experience, values, and ethical questions.

3. Identify and discuss characteristics of different periods of American literature, from multiple perspectives and in various cultural, religious, historical, and literary contexts to reach unique conclusions about the evolving American experience.
   

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP2

   Program Goal(s)

   Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

   Analyze literature in light of historical and cultural contexts.

4. Analyze how literature reflects and illuminates a multitude of human values and experiences, making it relevant to today's world.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

   Creative Process

   • CP4

   Program Goal(s)

   Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

   Explain how literature reflects the human condition, experience, values, and ethical questions.

5. Use evidence from literary texts and secondary texts to create effective literary analysis.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Writing Rubric

   Program Goal(s)

   Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

   Compose and present creative and original projects of literary analysis supported by academic sources and documentation.

6. Use appropriate research and documentation strategies to create effective literary analysis.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Writing Rubric

   Program Goal(s)

   Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

   Compose and present creative and original projects of literary analysis supported by academic sources and documentation.

7. Assess and communicate a critical understanding of the literature, in meaning and craft, and exchange these ideas with others.

   Learning Activity Artifact

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

   Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

   • Other (please fill out box below)
   • Writing Rubric

   Program Goal(s)

   Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

   Compose and present creative and original projects of literary analysis supported by academic sources and documentation.

8. Recognize and understand basic historical events and philosophical or religious terms as applicable to each unit.

   This objective is a course Goal Only