ENGL 170 American Literature

Course Information

Pre/Corequisites

Prerequisite: Next-Generation Accuplacer Reading score 250+ OR Classic Accuplacer Reading score 77+ OR MCA Reading score 1046+ OR ACT Reading 21+ OR completion of one of the following courses with a grade of C, 2.0, or higher: READ 0099, ENGL 0099, or ENGL 100 [or equivalent].

Institutional Core Competencies

• Cultural Competence - Students will be able to demonstrate an attitude of personal curiosity, a rising knowledge of cultures, and an evolving range of skills for living and working among others with other worldviews and ways of life.
• Communication - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate and effective interactions with others to achieve their personal, academic, and professional objectives.
• Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will be able to demonstrate purposeful thinking with the goal of using a creative process for developing and building upon ideas and/or the goal of using a critical process for the analyzing and evaluating of ideas.

Course Competencies

1. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of canonical works from American literature.
2. Categorize the major genres and styles in American literature.
3. Interpret those works as expressions of individual and human values within a historical and social context.
4. Formulate a critical response to examined works.
5. Construct an informed personal reaction to examined works.
6. Examine the development of group identities in U.S. history and culture.
7. Demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power between groups in historic and contemporary American society.
8. Analyze the experience and contributions of the many groups that have shaped and continue to shape American society and culture.
9. Distinguish the oral and written contributions of specific groups to American literature.
10. Examine how colonization informs American literature.
11. Examine how historical and contemporary American culture shape the examined works of various identity groups.
12. Illustrate how historical and contemporary American culture informs one's own position in relation to works of American literature.