Course Details
Course Details

Course Details

Richard Bland College

ENGL206: Amer Lit: Civil War to Present

Survey of American literature since 1865 emphasizing connections among representative works. Authors may include Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Zitkala Sa, Edith Wharton, Henry James, W. E. B. Dubois, Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Philip Roth, Leslie Marmon Silko, Toni Morrison, and others.

Overview
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Delivery Method
Online
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Delivery Method
Campus
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Delivery Method
Hybrid
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Credits
3.0
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Department
Language and Humanities
Course Notes
Three hours lecture. UCGS approved course, 2021.
Learning Objectives and Outcomes
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  • Trace the development of American literature during this period and explain its conventions and contexts, identifying and critically reading the texts of key authors
  • Ethically incorporate appropriate and relevant sources with an awareness of their accuracy, contexts, purposes, and points of view using in-text and bibliographic citation
  • Conform to writing conventions and expectations of scholarly discourse


Dual Enrollment
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Type
Transfer
Offered
High School
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College Campus
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Offered
Online
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Hybrid
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Starting Academic Year
2022
Where Will This Course Transfer?
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