ENGL 202 American Literature II
This course studies literature written in the United States of America from the mid-nineteenth century to recent times. Works are chosen to represent diverse ethnic, racial, and social groups in historical, political, and economic contexts for what they reflect and reveal about the evolving American experience and character. Representative works include Realist and Naturalist literature, immigrant and Native American experience, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from WWI and WWII eras, and feminist expression, among others. Students will search for 'American Identity' through literature and cultural studies. Students will explore The Harlem Renaissance, The Jazz Age, The Sixties, and other important eras in American life. Students will also read essays on contemporary culture, including works about popular culture. This course is writing intensive.
Hours Weekly
3 hours weekly
Course Objectives
- 1. Identify and apply literary terms, concepts, critical strategies for literary analysis, and stylistic characteristics in the texts studied.
- 2. Pose questions about, analyze, and interpret texts according to themes that reflect the human condition such as economic, ethical, historical, personal, political, and/or social issues.
- 3. Identify and discuss characteristics of different movements of 20th century American literature such as realism and naturalism, from multiple perspectives and in various cultural, historical, and social contexts to reach unique conclusions about the evolving American experience.
- 4. Analyze the ways in which literature reflects and illuminates a multitude of human values and experiences and thus has relevance to today's world.
- 5. Use evidence from literary texts and secondary texts for effective literary analysis.
- 6. Write analytically about literary works, using appropriate research and documentation.
- 7. Critically assess and communicate an understanding of the literature, in meaning and craft, and exchange these ideas with others.
- 8. Evaluate the individual works of major American poets and fiction writers of the 20th
century.
Course Objectives
- 1. Identify and apply literary terms, concepts, critical strategies for literary analysis, and stylistic characteristics in the texts studied.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)
1. Describe the aesthetic and structural characteristics of different genres, literary periods, and major critical theories of literature.
- 2. Pose questions about, analyze, and interpret texts according to themes that reflect the human condition such as economic, ethical, historical, personal, political, and/or social issues.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Writing Assignments
- Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)
3. Explain how literature reflects the human condition, experience, values, and ethical questions.
- 3. Identify and discuss characteristics of different movements of 20th century American literature such as realism and naturalism, from multiple perspectives and in various cultural, historical, and social contexts to reach unique conclusions about the evolving American experience.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)
2. Analyze literature in light of historical and cultural contexts.
- 4. Analyze the ways in which literature reflects and illuminates a multitude of human values and experiences and thus has relevance to today's world.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)
3. Explain how literature reflects the human condition, experience, values, and ethical questions.
- 5. Use evidence from literary texts and secondary texts for effective literary analysis.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Writing Rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)
4. Compose and present creative and original projects of literary analysis supported by scholarly research and documentation.
- 6. Write analytically about literary works, using appropriate research and documentation.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Writing Rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)
4. Compose and present creative and original projects of literary analysis supported by scholarly research and documentation.
- 7. Critically assess and communicate an understanding of the literature, in meaning and craft, and exchange these ideas with others.
Learning Activity Artifact
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis
Procedure for Assessing Student Learning
- Other (please fill out box below)
- Writing Rubric
Program Goal(s)
Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)
4. Compose and present creative and original projects of literary analysis supported by scholarly research and documentation.
- 8. Evaluate the individual works of major American poets and fiction writers of the 20th
century.
This objective is a course Goal Only