Overview
Description
Major figures and movements from the beginnings to the Civil War.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Junior or Senior standing
ENG 303
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing OR ENG 303.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
- analyze key early American texts in their cultural and historical contexts.
- identify significant ideas, major authors and works, key historical or cultural events, and characteristic attitudes expressed in American literature before 1800.
- identify the major movements within literature before 1800, and to describe the development of forms and genres across that period.
- analyze American literature before 1800 drawing from theories in the field.