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2007-2008 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
2007-2008 Undergraduate Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 203 - American Literature I


Surveys American literature from the pre-contact period to the Civil War, focusing on how significant literary and diverse cultural texts from this period reflect the struggles of a growing nation. Students will read and analyze indigenous creation stories, exploration accounts, autobiographies, sermons, diaries, letters, public documents, and other narratives, frequently paired in order to discover alternate viewpoints. Representative authors may include De Las Casas, Smith, Winthrop, Bradstreet, Jemison, Franklin, Occum, Adams (Abigail and John), Jefferson, Rowson, Irving, Kirkland, Emerson, Hawthorne, Wilson, Child, Grimke, and Truth.


(Cr: 3)