LIT2550 AMERICAN LITERATURE I
3 Credit Hours
Student Level:
This course is open to students on the college level freshman or sophomore.
Catalog Description:
LIT2550 - American Literature I (3 hrs.)
[KRSN ENG2010]
This course is a survey of American literature from the precolonial period to the Civil War era with an emphasis placed on authors, literary movements, periods and styles.
Course Classification:
Lecture
Prerequisites:
ENG2211 Composition I or instructor approval.
Core Outcomes:
The learning outcomes and competencies detailed in this course meet, or exceed the learning outcomes and competencies specified by the Kansas Core Outcomes Project for this course, as sanctioned by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Controlling Purpose:
This course is intended to familiarize students with American literary traditions from their precolonial beginnings to the Civil War era. Its specific intent is to provide students an understanding of various genres, styles, periods, and artists and an appreciation of literary experiences as it relates to real life. Also, this course is designed to aid students in discovering the significant role of diversity in American literary history in its broadest forms.
Learner Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Demonstrate a complex understanding of American literary traditions from their precolonial beginnings to the Civil War era, including prominent authors, literary movements, periods, and styles.
- Analyze and interpret literary works, drawing on relevant historical and cultural knowledge, and applying terminology and concepts specific to literary studies.
- Evaluate and critically examine narratives of American literary history with attention to the role of diversity in its broadest forms.
- Practice foundational research strategies appropriate to literary studies and write focused, convincing analytical essays in clear, grammatical prose.
Unit Outcomes for Criterion Based Evaluation:
The following outline defines the minimum core content not including the final examination period. Instructors may add other material as time allows.
Unit 1: American Literary Traditions
Outcomes: The student will be able to demonstrate a complex understanding of American literary traditions from their precolonial beginnings to the Civil War era, including prominent authors, literary movements, periods, and styles.
- Recognize patterns of style in early American literature.
- Articulate features of most prominent authors of dominant periods.
- Analyze and interpret literary works, drawing on relevant historical and cultural knowledge, including religious, political and/or sociological behavior as revealed in the literature of the Puritan, realistic and romantic periods.
Unit 2: Historical and Cultural Knowledge
Outcomes: The student will be able to analyze and interpret literary works, drawing on relevant historical and cultural knowledge, and applying terminology and concepts specific to literary studies.
- Define terminology necessary for analysis of literature. Summarize the literary work, the tenets of the literary approach and the major historical and social events of the period.
- Apply modes of critical inquiry, terminology, textual evidence, concepts, and conventions specific to the discipline using journals, essays, tales, sketches, short stories, and/or speeches.
Unit 3: American Literary History and the Role of Diversity
Outcomes: The student will be able to evaluate and critically examine narratives of American literary history with attention to the role of diversity in its broadest forms.
- Examine similarities and differences in gender, race, culture, political views, geography and other factors contributing to the literary perspectives of the periods studied.
- Discuss the literature from the historical viewpoint, as well as through a contemporary lens and how it affects today’s world.
- Explain the historical context of the literature and relate it to the current American voice.
Unit 4: Literary Studies and Research
Outcomes: The student will be able to practice foundational research strategies appropriate to literary studies and write focused, convincing analytical essays in clear, grammatical prose.
- Analyze varying sources of the emergent voices in the survey of American literature.
- Compose a research project
Projects Required:
As assigned by instructor
Textbook:
Contact the bookstore for current textbook.
Attendance Policy:
Students should adhere to the attendance policy outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Grading Policy:
The grading policy will be outlined by the instructor in the course syllabus.
Maximum class size:
Based on classroom occupancy
Course Time Frame:
The U.S. Department of Education, Higher Learning Commission and the Kansas Board of Regents define credit hour and have specific regulations that the college must follow when developing, teaching and assessing the educational aspects of the college. A credit hour is an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutionally-established equivalency that reasonably approximates not less than one hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work for approximately fifteen weeks for one semester hour of credit or an equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time. The number of semester hours of credit allowed for each distance education or blended hybrid courses shall be assigned by the college based on the amount of time needed to achieve the same course outcomes in a purely face-to-face format.
Refer to the following policies:
402.00 Academic Code of Conduct
263.00 Student Appeal of Course Grades
403.00 Student Code of Conduct
Disability Services Program:
Cowley College, in recognition of state and federal laws, will accommodate a student with a documented disability. If a student has a disability which may impact work in this class which requires accommodations, contact the Disability Services Coordinator.
DISCLAIMER: THIS INFORMATION IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. FOR THE OFFICIAL COURSE PROCEDURE CONTACT ACADEMIC AFFAIRS.
Revised 2/23/2024
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