ENGH354

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Contemporary American Literature

English College of Liberal Arts

Course Subject Code

ENGH

Course Number

354

Status

Active

Course Attributes

CEA: ProgCLA-CEA and Au Pair, MECW: Major-English:CreativeWriting, MENL: Major-English:Literature, MEWC: Major-English:Writing/Comms, WRIT: GenEd-Writing Intensive, ENEL: Minor-Engl:Literature Elective, NENL: Minor-English:Literature

Course Short Title

Contemporary American Lit.

Course Long Title

Contemporary American Literature

Course Description

Offers in-depth study of a particular author, genre, theme, or topic from post-1900 American literatures. Topics may include the study of major authors; naturalism, modernism, the Beat Generation, multiculturalism, graphic novels, postmodernism; covering fields such as women's literature, ethnic literatures, immigrant literature, queer literature; or contextualizing historical eras such as the Great Depression, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, civil rights, the twenty-first century. Asks students to develop their literary and analytical writing through close reading, engaging literary theories and scholarship, and developing critical approaches to the study of literature and culture.

Min

4

Repeatable

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Course Restrictions

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Equivalent Course(s)

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