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Sep 07, 2024
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ENG 252 - American Literature from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present Credits: 3 Lecture Contact Hours: 3 Description: Students read and analyze significant literary works that illustrate the changing currents of thought and expression that have dominated American life from the Civil War to the present.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 with a minimum grade of 2.0 or minimum score of 22 ACT-English, 29 SAT-Writing and Language, 108 CPT-Sentence Skills or 276 NGA-Writing. Corequisites: None. Recommended: ENG 102 and college-level reading.
Course Category: Liberal Arts | Humanities This course counts toward Schoolcraft’s General Education Requirements. This course counts toward a Michigan Transfer Agreement General Education Requirement.
This Course is Typically Offered: As Needed Check Course Availability
Course Competencies
- Analyze post-Civil War American literature on its own literary merits.
- Distinguish the early American roots of post-Civil War American literature.
- Analyze contributions of post-Civil War American literature to modern times.
- Discuss post-Civil War American literature in its historical context.
- Use literary terms to discuss post-Civil War American literature.
- Characterize post-Civil War American authors and works.
- Explain the way in which the forms used by post-Civil War American writers shaped the writers’ themes.
- Explore the ways in which changing currents of thought are expressed in post-Civil War American literature.
- Explore the connections between post-Civil War American literature and authors’ lives, historical events or social change.
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