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Aug 24, 2024
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ENGL 425 - American Novel After 1900 Units: 4 Selected American novels, 1900 to the present.
Equivalent Quarter Course: ENGL 4870 or ENGL 4874 or ENGL 4876. Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground. Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice). Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: - Discuss, in general terms, how selected novels exemplify the historical periods and literary traditions from which they derive.
- Define the principal themes and problems that emerge from studies of representative novels and discuss–in both oral and written formats–the manifestations of those themes and problems within selected works.
- Demonstrate (a) an ability to analyze selected passages and (b) an ability to use such analyses both to illuminate and complicate a reading of the texts in which these passages occur.
- Demonstrate an ability to identify, find, and use library resources (books, journals, concordances, lexicons, etc. that may further the student’s work both in and beyond English 425
- 5. Understand critical theory and its relationship to literary critiques.
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