ENGL 450

Fall 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

Becoming Modern: American Literature, 1865-1914

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

After the Civil War the United States entered a period of accelerating modernization and change. This course addresses how the nation's writers helped build modern America in response to a host of exciting and daunting developments in economics, science, and politics, including the enfranchisement of African Americans, Jim Crow segregation laws, growing income inequality, the rise of unions and anarchist movements, the invention of the automobile and the department store, new sciences such as including Darwinism and psychoanalysis, and American empire-building in places like Hawai'i and the Philippines. Writers studied might include Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Zitkala-Sa, Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, and Edith Wharton.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 450 class schedule data for fall 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40395	Lecture-Discussion	1G	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	English Building	Newcomb, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 4 hours Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	39493	Lecture-Discussion	1U	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	English Building	Newcomb, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 3 hours Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.