ENGL 503 - Highlights of American Literature, Music, Art - I

This course is designed to deepen graduate students’ experience of American literature and expand their knowledge of various literary and artistic features of American Studies. This course presumes that students will already have some exposure to the traditional works of the early explorers and settlers, Puritan culture, the Revolutionary War, Transcendentalism, and the major figures of the American Renaissance. Specifically, students will be able to: 1) demonstrate broad and deep thinking about literature(s) in America 2) raise questions about the definition and nature of American literature(s) 3) research auxiliary areas of interest in American Studies 4) make connections between works and between texts and life.

Credits: 3