Fall 2017 | ENGL 3005W Section 001: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I (14051)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Tue, Thu 11:15AM - 12:30PMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 35
- 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+Fall2017
- 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/14051/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2016
Fall 2017 | ENGL 3005W Section 002: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I (14052)
- Instructor(s)
- Moinak Choudhury (TA)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Mon 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 162
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- 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/14052/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2016
Fall 2017 | ENGL 3005W Section 003: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I (14053)
- Instructor(s)
- Moinak Choudhury (TA)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Wed 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAmundson Hall 162
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- 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/14053/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2016
Fall 2017 | ENGL 3005W Section 004: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I (14054)
- Instructor(s)
- Stephen Ellis (TA)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Mon 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 313
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- 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/14054/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2016
Fall 2017 | ENGL 3005W Section 005: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures I (14055)
- Instructor(s)
- Stephen Ellis (TA)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017Wed 11:15AM - 12:05PMUMTC, East BankAkerman Hall 313
- Auto Enrolls With:
- Section 001
- 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/14055/1179
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 November 2016
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