- Code
- ELL 313
- Name
- American Literature I
- Semester
- 5
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.00
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Description
-
This course introduces the movements, periods and principal authors of American literature from its beginnings to naturalism. It covers the major genres of prose, poetry and drama. Literary texts are analyzed in their historical social, contexts and their unique cultural value is elucidated.
- Objectives
-
At the end of this course, the student will be able to: 1. Understand and appreciate American literature as historical documents, philosophical reflections on American values and lifestyles and as works of art. 2. Be able to read, analyze and interpret literature and relate it to their own values and experience.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Early American Literature. Puritan Writings. Slave Narratives.
- 2
- Colonial literature
- 3
- Colonial literature
- 4
- Revolution and reason: American Enlightenment
- 5
- Enlightenment
- 6
- Forging a national literature: Romanticism
- 7
- Romanticism
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- Civil war literature
- 10
- Abolitionist literature
- 11
- Development of Realism
- 12
- Realism
- 13
- Naturalism
- 14
- Selected works
- 15
- Selected works
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Understand and appreciate American literature as historical documents, philosophical reflections on American values and lifestyles and as works of art.
- 2
- Be able to read, analyze amd interpret literature and relate it to their own values and experience
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 20% 20%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Term projects
- 1 20% 20%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 10% 10%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 50%
- Final exam percent
- 50%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 3 48
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 1 6 6
- Midterms
- 1 14 14
- Final exam
- 1 13 13
- Other
- 1 2 2
- Total workLoad
- 125
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.00
- ECTS
- 5.00