ENGL 4427 American Romanticism

Survey of the major nineteenth-century American literature; authors may include Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.

Registration Name

American Romanticism

Lecture Hours

3

Lab Hours

0

Credits

3

Prerequisite

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

Student Learning Outcomes

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

1. Read more effectively the early 19th Century literature of United States.
2. Respond more fully to serious literature through literary analysis, research and criticism.
3. Write more effectively through your increasing knowledge of the composition process.
4. Become more aware of the personal, social, and communicative purposes of language, including language for the management of others.
5. Recognize the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that promote constructive interaction between people of differing economic, social, racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds.
6. Increase your enjoyment of reading.