ENGL 2400 - American Lit Before 1865 (HU, GC)

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

English

Description:

Fulfills a General Education Humanities requirement and is an approved Global and Cultural Perspectives course. This course will introduce students to some of the major writers and works in American literature from the Colonial Period to the American Renaissance. Students will survey a variety of literature, from the sermons and poetry of the early Puritans to the seminal essays, poetry and fiction of the American Renaissance. Engages students with common practices in reading, interpreting, and writing about literature, and it will address questions of literary form and genre, the relationship between literary works and the cultures that produce them, and how and why we read. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Demonstrate knowledge and awareness of the importance and scope of the literature for the time period covered by creating connections, both verbal and written, between various texts and authors. 2. Through short written and oral responses and reflections, investigate the significance of a wide variety of genres from the literary movements and time periods covered. 3. Identify and explain the significance of major authors and movements covered in this survey. 4. Analyze and critique a specific literary text in a meaningful and effective fashion, doing far more than stating the obvious. 5. Synthesize relevant scholarly sources with the student's own original ideas in a balanced manner (quotations, paraphrases, and summaries fit nicely with paragraph main ideas and topic sentences). FA

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

General Education

• GC - Global & Cultural Perspectives

• HU - Literature and Humanities

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