American Literature II:1865 to

Catalog description

This is a course designed to survey American literature from 1865 to the present. Included are selected works of major writers such as Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, James Dickey, and Sylvia Plath. This course also stresses methods of library research and emphasizes writing of the research paper and the paper of literary interpretation. This course partially satisfies the writing requirements outlined in the General Education Requirements. American Literature to 1865 is not necessarily a prerequisite to this course. (Note: Credit is only given for AML 2020 or AML 2020H.)<br><br>Prerequisite ENC 1101 with a minimum grade of C or Prerequisite ENC 1101H with a minimum grade of C or Prerequisite IDS 1101H with a minimum grade of C or Prerequisite IDS 1111H with a minimum grade of C or Prerequisite appropriate score on the college placement test