Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
COLP-0014
Organization's ID:
ENG232
Organization:
Pearson
Location:
Online
Length:
8 weeks
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 American Literature
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to provide a survey of American Literature, Beginnings through The Age of Romanticism including an overview of the literature and historical timeframe for this period. Stories, personal narratives, biographical sketches, poems, speeches, letters, and essays comprise the course in order to provide a rich array of readings for this literary study. American authors from about late 1400s to late 1800s are studied. Students will engage in a process of critical reading, responding, analyzing, interpreting, and writing in the course.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Analyze the language of literature
  • Evaluate authors' intent, presentation, and attitudes
  • Summarize and synthesize main ideas, details, and thematic content
  • Evaluate and react to Early American literature and its historical significance
  • Identify the historical, social, cultural, and religious influences of American literature
  • Write critically about American literature
  • Apply literary terms and genres
  • Compare and contrast literature
  • Analyze literature

General Topics:

  • Study of authors, literature, and historical framework (including social, cultural, and religious influences) of American literature during a specific literary era
  • Identify literary functions and devices (such as theme, intent, meaning, authors' attitude, connotation, metaphor, simile, analogy, persuasion, description, imagery, satire, exaggerated language, literary terminology)
  • Think critically about literature
  • Collaboratively think and write about literature
  • Prepare reading responses and summaries
  • Analyze literature
  • Perform literary research
  • Use proper citation methodologies
  • Write essays on literary topics
  • Use a rubric to critique one's own writing
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Case Studies
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Case Studies
  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Presentations
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials