AML2010 — AMERICAN LITERATURE: COLONIAL TO 1900
Students will be introduced to works which represent the diverse literature emerging from America up until 1900. This survey of major American authors, literary works, and themes from colonial times through reconstruction (may include up to the turn of the century) focuses on the recognition of the major characteristics of early American literature. Works may be selected from authors such as Anne Bradstreet, James Fenimore Cooper, Kate Chopin, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Thomas Jefferson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Rowlandson, Nat Turner, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. AML2010 is a writing credit course. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet the requirements of the Gordon Rule for writing.