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Fall 2018  |  ENGL 3006W Section 001: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II (18166)

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 Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon, Wed 06:00PM - 07:55PM
UMTC, East Bank
Lind Hall 320
Enrollment Status:
Closed (21 of 25 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/?lemke074+ENGL3006W+Fall2018
Class Description:
This course will survey U.S. literature from 1860 to today, with three broad areas of focus: 1) How revolutions in race, class, sexuality, and gender both inform and are informed by the literature of the period; 2) The shift in genre from realism to naturalism and from modernism to post-modernism; 3) The role of the speculative (both in the sense of imagining new futures and re-remembering the past) in the American cultural imagination. While the class is focused on the literature of the period, students should expect to learn broadly about the cultural history of this period through occasional study of music, visual art, politics, and economics. Writers studied will likely include figures like Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Charles Chesnutt, Eugene O'Neil, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Alan Ginsberg, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Sherman Alexie, and Toni Morrison.
Who Should Take This Class?:
Anyone hoping to learn about the literature, culture, and history of the United States!
Grading:
Students will likely be required to: write a series of papers (some short, some long); do a group presentation and lead discussion on one of the class texts; read attentively and carefully while participating in class discussions.
Exam Format:
There probably won't be exams (assuming that the class reads and participates in discussion). I may use pop-quizzes to ensure that you are reading and keeping up with the course material.
Class Format:
Lecture + Discussion + Fun = ENGL 3006W
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18166/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
22 March 2018

Fall 2018  |  ENGL 3006W Section 301: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II (20641)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
College of Continuing Education
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
Enrollment Status:
Closed (25 of 25 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:
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 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/20641/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 April 2016

Fall 2018  |  ENGL 3006W Section 302: Survey of American Literatures and Cultures II (20642)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
4 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
Completely Online
Class Attributes:
College of Continuing Education
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
Enrollment Status:
Open (22 of 25 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:
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 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/20642/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 April 2016

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