ENGL2012 — American Literature: 1900 to Present
ENGL 2012 - American Literature: 1900 to Present ENGL 2012 - American Literature: 1900 to Present Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 Course Description: This college literature course, intended for all students, analyzes and explores American Literature from 1900 to the present. Topics may cover changes in the American national identity; gender issues; LGBTQIA+ issues; racial identity; immigration and migration; the influence of other art forms, science, technology, and media on literature; and literary movements such as Modernism, Post-modernism, and Contemporary (21 st Century) Literature. Typical authors may include T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Art Spiegelman, Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich, and Junot Diaz. MnTC Goals Goal 6 Goal 7A Major Content Modernism Period. Historical and cultural analysis Social and cultural events (such as World War I, World War II, the Great Depression, effect of Jim Crow Laws, immigration and migration, systemic racism and sexism, advent of the Civil Rights movement and second-wave feminism, etc.) Changes in racial, gender, sexual, and class perception and identity Literary Elements Common elements of Modernist Literature (such as the focus on literature as high art, stylistic and formalistic literary innovations, fragmented narratives/poems, use of stream-of-consciousness narratives,etc.) Common themes of Modernist Literature (such as isolation, confus
Prerequisites: ENGL0950, RDNG0940, RDNG0950, ENGL0090, ESOL0051, ESOL0052