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ENG 451B - American Literature II

(3 units)
Major figures and movements from the Civil War to the present.

Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing OR ENG 303 

Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring - Even 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 nineteenth- and twentieth-century 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 after 1800.
4. identify the major movements within literature after 1800, and to describe the development of forms and genres across that period.
5. analyze American literature after 1800 drawing from theories in the field.


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