ENG303: American Literature (Comprehensive)

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Course Overview

In this course, students read and analyze works of American literature from colonial to contemporary times, including poetry, short stories, novels, drama, and nonfiction. The literary works provide opportunities for critical writing, creative projects, and online discussions. Students develop vocabulary skills and refresh their knowledge of grammar, usage, and mechanics in preparation for standardized tests.

Course Length

Two Semesters

Materials

Journeys in Literature: American Traditions, Volume C; The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams

Prerequisites

ENG203: Literary Analysis and Composition II, or equivalent

Course Outline

Readings include:

Novels
Students will read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and one of the following:

  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  • The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  • A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Drama
  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

Prose Fiction and Nonfiction
Works by William Bradford, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Banneker, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Chief Joseph, William Faulkner, Julia Alvarez, Amy Tan, Richard Rodriguez, and others

Poetry
Phillis Wheatley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, Edward Arlington Robinson, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Rita Dove, and others