Course Description
Focuses on primary texts ranging across two or more periods as conventionally construed within the faculty member's discipline, with attention to the uses and limitations of customary boundaries (e.g., chronological, geographical, canonical, or disciplinary).
Syllabus
Student Learning Outcomes, Goals, Objectives:
Students successfully completing this course will be able to:
Research Methodology
To recognize and apply the research methodology needed for the critical study of the literatures, rhetoric, or language of English.
Student will apply research methodologies to the study of early American texts via weekly response papers, article discussions, seminar papers, and seminar presentations.
Analysis
To identify and discriminate among literary, rhetorical, or linguistic theories and history to inform the critical study of English.
Students will read and apply historicist theory to American literary texts in discussions and all written work .
Content Knowledge
To recognize and summarize the multiple fields of English and the current issues within them.
Weekly readings and discussions will enable students to be conversant in the important texts surrounding the American Revolution.
Course Grading Information:
Activity/Performance Measure | Percentage/Points |
|---|---|
Seminar Paper | 40% |
Eight weekly response papers | 30% |
Article and Discussion leading | 10% |
Participation | 10% |
Seminar Presentation | 5% |
Abstract Assignment | 5% |
Grading Scale for the Course
Percentage | Letter Grade |
|---|---|
93.0 and above | A |
90.0 – 92.9 | A- |
87.0 – 89.9 | B+ |
83.0 – 86.9 | B |
80.0 – 82.9 | B- |
77.0 – 79.9 | C+ |
70.0 – 76.9 | C |
Below 70.9 | F |
Attendance/Participation:
Students who miss two class meetings should speak with me so that we can evaluate whether you should consider dropping the course.
Students who miss more than three class meetings will not be eligible to pass the course.
Per university policy, requests for excused absences for religious observance must be made at least one week in advance.
Students are limited to two excused absences for religious observances; documentation is required, and any work due during the absence must be submitted in advance.
Course Materials Purchased by the Students:
Spires, Derrick, et al. The Broadview Anthology of American Literature. Concise Edition. Volume 1: Beginnings to Reconstruction. Broadview. 9781770488885
Foster, Hannah. The Coquette and the Boarding School. Broadview. 978155111998
Scholarly Perspectives
This course engages diverse scholarly perspectives to develop critical thinking, analysis, and debate and inclusion of a reading does not imply endorsement.