ENGL 4428 Twentieth-Century American Literature

Survey of major twentieth-century authors of the United States; authors may include Frost, Pound, Eliot, Stevens, O'Neill, Williams, Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Hurston, Wright, Baldwin, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Lowell, Plath, Roth, Morrison, and DeLillo.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

2000-level ENGL course with a grade of "C" or better.

Typically Offered

Demorest Campus: every third year

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Analyze literary texts in order to question, investigate, and draw conclusions about their form, content, and interpretive ambiguities.
2. Write well-structured essays that persuasively pursue a given trope or motif in the literary text(s) under investigation.
3. Demonstrate a working knowledge of genre conventions, terminology, and literary history.
4. Discuss literary texts in a clear, collaborative, and open-minded manner.
5. Minimize errors in grammar, syntax, punctuation, and spelling.