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Nov 26, 2024
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ENG 451A - American Literature I (3 units)
Major figures and movements from the beginnings to the Civil War.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing OR ENG 303 .
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
2. analyze key early American texts in their cultural and historical contexts.
3. identify significant ideas, major authors and works, key historical or cultural events, and characteristic attitudes expressed in American literature before 1800.
4. identify the major movements within literature before 1800, and to describe the development of forms and genres across that period.
5. analyze American literature before 1800 drawing from theories in the field.
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