NWCCD 2016-17 Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
NWCCD 2016-17 Catalog [This is an Archived Catalog.]

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ENGL 2320 - US Literature II


This course concludes the survey of American Literature begun in ENGL 2310 and covers authors from 1870 to the present.

Prerequisites:
Completion of an English Advanced Writing course with a “C” or better, or instructor consent

Co-requisites:

none



Minimum Student Competencies
Upon completion of ENGL 2320 US Literature II, the student will:

  1. Connect the literature before 1870 to the literature after 1870.
  2. Define realism, naturalism, modernism and post-modernism.
  3. Identify the major authors of each period.
  4. Articulate the influences of world events on the literature of the time.
  5. Sketch the major literary upheavals that occurred in the twentieth century.
  6. Explain the differences between the poetry and prose fiction of the period.
  7. Interpret the complex meanings in the literature of the period.


General Education Requirement: Humanities

Credits: 3

Instructional Method Lecture

Contact Hours: 3 hours/week



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