Spring 2017 | ENGL 3005W Section 001: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I (50427)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Mon, Wed 04:40PM - 06:35PMUMTC, East BankLind Hall 325
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Readings in American literature from first European contact, through colonial times, to mid-19th century. Texts in several genres by diverse authors. Classics, less familiar works. Historical, social, and aesthetic contexts.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?cpexa+ENGL3005W+Spring2017
- Class Description:
This course will survey American literature from the arrival of settlers to the Civil War. Course topics will include the Puritan theology that cast such a long shadow over the American cultural imagination; the literary construction in the Revolutionary era of a national identity under the influence of such Enlightenment ideals as reason, civility, cosmopolitanism, and sympathy; the rise in the mid-nineteenth century of a radical intellectual and social movement in Transcendentalism; the antebellum ideological struggles over slavery, industrialism, women's rights, and Native American rights; and the self-conscious cultivation of a national literary aesthetic in the Romantic prose and poetry of the period later critics would come (controversially) to call "the American Renaissance."
Likely authors: Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Hannah Webster Foster, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and more.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
20% Final Exam
50% Reports/Papers
10% Class Participation - Exam Format:
- Midterm and final exam, consisting of short-answer questions and passage identifications.
- Class Format:
- Lecture and discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50427/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2016
Spring 2017 | ENGL 3005W Section A94: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I (67957)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Online & Distance Lrng (ODL)
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing EducationUMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- ODL Open Enrl Reg Acad Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017UMTC, East Bank
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Readings in American literature from first European contact, through colonial times, to mid-19th century. Texts in several genres by diverse authors. Classics, less familiar works. Historical, social, and aesthetic contexts.
- Class Notes:
- After 11:59 PM Friday of the first week of the term, registration is closed and requires instructor permission.
- Class Description:
This course will survey American literature from the arrival of settlers to the Civil War. Course topics will include the Puritan theology that cast such a long shadow over the American cultural imagination; the literary construction in the Revolutionary era of a national identity under the influence of such Enlightenment ideals as reason, civility, cosmopolitanism, and sympathy; the rise in the mid-nineteenth century of a radical intellectual and social movement in Transcendentalism; the antebellum ideological struggles over slavery, industrialism, women's rights, and Native American rights; and the self-conscious cultivation of a national literary aesthetic in the Romantic prose and poetry of the period later critics would come (controversially) to call "the American Renaissance."
Likely authors: Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Hannah Webster Foster, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and more.
- Exam Format:
- Midterm and final exam, consisting of short-answer questions and passage identifications.
- Class Format:
- Lecture and discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67957/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2016
Spring 2017 | ENGL 3005W Section A95: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I (68094)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Online & Distance Lrng (ODL)
- Class Attributes:
- College of Continuing EducationUMNTC Liberal Education RequirementOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- ODL Open Enrl Reg Acad Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017UMTC, East Bank
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Readings in American literature from first European contact, through colonial times, to mid-19th century. Texts in several genres by diverse authors. Classics, less familiar works. Historical, social, and aesthetic contexts.
- Class Description:
This course will survey American literature from the arrival of settlers to the Civil War. Course topics will include the Puritan theology that cast such a long shadow over the American cultural imagination; the literary construction in the Revolutionary era of a national identity under the influence of such Enlightenment ideals as reason, civility, cosmopolitanism, and sympathy; the rise in the mid-nineteenth century of a radical intellectual and social movement in Transcendentalism; the antebellum ideological struggles over slavery, industrialism, women's rights, and Native American rights; and the self-conscious cultivation of a national literary aesthetic in the Romantic prose and poetry of the period later critics would come (controversially) to call "the American Renaissance."
Likely authors: Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, Hannah Webster Foster, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and more.
- Exam Format:
- Midterm and final exam, consisting of short-answer questions and passage identifications.
- Class Format:
- Lecture and discussion
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68094/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2016
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