ENGL 255

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Survey of American Lit I

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Credit: 3 hours.

American literature and its cultural backgrounds to 1870. For majors only.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement and ENGL 200.

Students must register for one discussion and one lecture section.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Western

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ENGL 255 class schedule data for spring 2017
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32071	Discussion/ Recitation	AD1	10:00AM -10:50AM	F	125 English Building	Thomas, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course.
32072	Discussion/ Recitation	AD2	11:00AM -11:50AM	F	125 English Building	Thomas, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course.
32070	Discussion/ Recitation	AD3	12:00PM -12:50PM	F	125 English Building	Thompson, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course.
43188	Discussion/ Recitation	AD4	1:00PM -1:50PM	F	125 English Building	Thompson, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course.
32075	Lecture	AL1	12:00PM -12:50PM	MW	1092 Lincoln Hall	Loughran, P	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/17-05/03/17 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: This course asks you to think broadly about American culture from some of its earliest iterations up until the crackup called the Civil War. By looking at a wide variety of texts—paintings, novels, songs, poems, and even a few films—we will try to get to know American culture both through its parts (specific genres, texts, and authors) and through our own cohesive reconstruction of these parts into an integrated whole—a story, which we will call, in our class, “American Literature, Part I.” To do this, we will draw our reading material both from “then” and “now”—reading literature from an earlier moment alongside literature by writers today who are thinking about that moment. Our reading list will thus include distant genres (like the captivity narrative, the slave narrative, the lyric poem, and the sentimental novel) and more contemporary genres (like the graphic novel, the conceptual poem, the hip-hop song, the postmodern film). This will thus be a course that will not just introduce you to the basic facts of American cultural history but challenge you to theorize the practice of “literary history”— a particularly powerful form of storytelling when wielded by a reader who knows it.