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Spring 2018  |  ENGL 3006W Section 001: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II (48803)

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 Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Smith Hall 231
Enrollment Status:
Closed (75 of 75 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
This course will survey some of the major literary figures, aesthetic movements, and thematic concerns of US literature from the Civil War to the present. Our investigation will identify common traits in the literature that causes it to fit within three very broad literary historical categories: realism, modernism, and postmodernism. We will explore what makes literature created by the people of the United States distinctly "American" during a period that extends from the Civil War and the outlawing of slavery to women's suffrage, workers' movements, the Great Depression, the First and Second World Wars, and the civil rights movement. In addition to reading and analyzing the literature itself in terms of style, form, genre, and language, we will study it in historical context: the complex interplay between the political, the social, the cultural, and the literary in the United States. This approach rests upon the notion that literature is not created in a vacuum; it is influenced by and influences the world in which it is created.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?kame0026+ENGL3006W+Spring2018
Class Description:
This course will survey some of the major literary figures, aesthetic movements, and thematic concerns of U.S. literature from the Civil War to the present. Our investigation will identify common traits in the literature that causes it to fit within three very broad literary historical categories: realism, modernism, and postmodernism. We will explore what makes literature created by the people of the United States distinctly "American" during a period that extends from the Civil War and the outlawing of slavery to women's suffrage, workers' movements, the Great Depression, the First and Second World Wars, and the civil rights movement. In addition to reading and analyzing the literature itself in terms of style, form, genre, and language, we will study it in historical context: the complex interplay between the political, the social, the cultural, and the literary in the United States. This approach rests upon the notion that literature is not created in a vacuum; it is influenced by and influences the world in which it is created.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48803/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 September 2017

Spring 2018  |  ENGL 3006W Section 002: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II (48804)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Mon 01:25PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Akerman Hall 313
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
This course will survey some of the major literary figures, aesthetic movements, and thematic concerns of US literature from the Civil War to the present. Our investigation will identify common traits in the literature that causes it to fit within three very broad literary historical categories: realism, modernism, and postmodernism. We will explore what makes literature created by the people of the United States distinctly "American" during a period that extends from the Civil War and the outlawing of slavery to women's suffrage, workers' movements, the Great Depression, the First and Second World Wars, and the civil rights movement. In addition to reading and analyzing the literature itself in terms of style, form, genre, and language, we will study it in historical context: the complex interplay between the political, the social, the cultural, and the literary in the United States. This approach rests upon the notion that literature is not created in a vacuum; it is influenced by and influences the world in which it is created.
Class Description:
This course will survey major U.S. literary movements, writers, and cultural developments from the mid-1800s through the late 1900s. We'll read for the ways literary genres and movements respond to the historical shifts of the modern era in America, such as the rise of an industrial capitalist economy and major urban centers and attendant shifts in population; changing sexual and gender norms; major wars and political conflicts; and shifting ideological notions of America's place in an increasingly globalized world. Central to our reading will be an examination of the ways that American race relations shaped the priorities of a wide range of literary and cultural tendencies. Writers studied will likely include figures like Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Charles Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, T.S. Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Robert Lowell, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Sherman Alexie, and Toni Morrison.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48804/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 April 2016

Spring 2018  |  ENGL 3006W Section 003: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II (48806)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Wed 01:25PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Akerman Hall 317
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
This course will survey some of the major literary figures, aesthetic movements, and thematic concerns of US literature from the Civil War to the present. Our investigation will identify common traits in the literature that causes it to fit within three very broad literary historical categories: realism, modernism, and postmodernism. We will explore what makes literature created by the people of the United States distinctly "American" during a period that extends from the Civil War and the outlawing of slavery to women's suffrage, workers' movements, the Great Depression, the First and Second World Wars, and the civil rights movement. In addition to reading and analyzing the literature itself in terms of style, form, genre, and language, we will study it in historical context: the complex interplay between the political, the social, the cultural, and the literary in the United States. This approach rests upon the notion that literature is not created in a vacuum; it is influenced by and influences the world in which it is created.
Class Description:
This course will survey major U.S. literary movements, writers, and cultural developments from the mid-1800s through the late 1900s. We'll read for the ways literary genres and movements respond to the historical shifts of the modern era in America, such as the rise of an industrial capitalist economy and major urban centers and attendant shifts in population; changing sexual and gender norms; major wars and political conflicts; and shifting ideological notions of America's place in an increasingly globalized world. Central to our reading will be an examination of the ways that American race relations shaped the priorities of a wide range of literary and cultural tendencies. Writers studied will likely include figures like Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Charles Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, T.S. Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Robert Lowell, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Sherman Alexie, and Toni Morrison.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48806/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 April 2016

Spring 2018  |  ENGL 3006W Section 004: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II (48805)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Discussion
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018
Mon 01:25PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Amundson Hall 104
Auto Enrolls With:
Section 001
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
Course Catalog Description:
This course will survey some of the major literary figures, aesthetic movements, and thematic concerns of US literature from the Civil War to the present. Our investigation will identify common traits in the literature that causes it to fit within three very broad literary historical categories: realism, modernism, and postmodernism. We will explore what makes literature created by the people of the United States distinctly "American" during a period that extends from the Civil War and the outlawing of slavery to women's suffrage, workers' movements, the Great Depression, the First and Second World Wars, and the civil rights movement. In addition to reading and analyzing the literature itself in terms of style, form, genre, and language, we will study it in historical context: the complex interplay between the political, the social, the cultural, and the literary in the United States. This approach rests upon the notion that literature is not created in a vacuum; it is influenced by and influences the world in which it is created.
Class Description:
This course will survey major U.S. literary movements, writers, and cultural developments from the mid-1800s through the late 1900s. We'll read for the ways literary genres and movements respond to the historical shifts of the modern era in America, such as the rise of an industrial capitalist economy and major urban centers and attendant shifts in population; changing sexual and gender norms; major wars and political conflicts; and shifting ideological notions of America's place in an increasingly globalized world. Central to our reading will be an examination of the ways that American race relations shaped the priorities of a wide range of literary and cultural tendencies. Writers studied will likely include figures like Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Charles Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, T.S. Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Robert Lowell, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Sherman Alexie, and Toni Morrison.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/48805/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 April 2016

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