Colonial and U.S. Literature to 1865

Catalog description

This course surveys the works of major writers in U.S. literature from the pre-colonial period to U.S. Civil War. Primary sources include nonfiction letters, journals, and histories, short fiction, drama, poetry, the novel, and other forms. Topics include basic knowledge of literary terminology and techniques of textual analysis as well as contextual examination of colonialism; political, philosophical, and theological change; aesthetic and literary movements; race, gender, citizenship, and other identity categories; slavery and Civil War. Course activities include reading and study of primary sources; contextual examination through literary research and interpretation strategies; class discussion, and regular writing assignments. This course fulfills the requirements for a Literature General Education course in the Ohio Transfer 36.