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.