ENGL 4430 Literature of the American South

Survey of Southern American literature from the Colonial period to the present; authors may include Jefferson, Douglass, Page, Faulkner, Wright, Welty, O'Connor, Dickey, and McCarthy.

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. Engage in reading critically the literature of the American South.
2. Develop critical and creative thinking skills through class discussion and writing.
3. Understand the historical conditions under which writers and literary and cultural critics have invented "the South" and how they have chosen its representations.
4. Explore the meanings of the terms, “South,” “Southern,” “Southern Literature,” and “Southern writer.”
5. Trace major nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first century’s cultural and literary.
6. Issues that have affected the development of fiction in the American South, from its beginnings in the 19th C. to the Modernists through postmodern and contemporary writers.
7. Explore the effects of “place” on fictional settings (and writers).
8. Respond more fully to serious literature by understanding various literary critical approaches, from “New Criticism” through Deconstruction and other postmodern methods.
9. Become more aware of the personal, social, and communicative purposes of language, including language for the management of others.
10. Recognize the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that promote constructive interaction between people of differing economic, social, racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.
11. Write more effectively through increasing knowledge of the composition process.