TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	2
SEMESTER	Third Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	6
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to identify some of the ideas and themes that underlie major works of American literature, with reference to contemporary cultural, political, and intellectual issues, 2) will be able to discuss the main characteristics of the major genres of each period, 3) will be able to survey the major periods and movements in American literature from the colonial times to the late Romantic period.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course is a historical review of American literature from the colonial times through the late Romantic period. The course identifies the major periods, schools of thought, and aesthetic principles that contributed to the development of American literature through the 19th century.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction to the Course & Overview of the Syllabus; Period Introduction Vol. A: ?Beginnings to 1820? (3-26) 2nd Week The Iroquois Creation Story (31-35); Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) from A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (87-93); William Bradford (1590-1657) from Of Plymouth Plantation Book I (134-148), Book II (150-154); John Smith (1580-1631) excerpts from The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (113-122) 3rd Week Thomas Morton (c.1579-1647) ?The New English Canaan? (169-176); Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672) ?To My Dear Children? (246-249); Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729) ?Huswifery? (308) 4th Week Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) ?Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God? (390-402); Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) from The Autobiography (1771-1790): Part Two ?Continuation of the Account of My Life, Begun at Passy, 1784 (519-530) 5th Week Thomas Paine (1737-1809) from Common Sense: ?Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs? (683-689); J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) from Letters from an American Farmer ?What Is an American? (636-645) 6th Week Revision Quiz & Midterm I 7th Week Period Introduction + Quiz 8th Week Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ?The American Scholar? (210-223); Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) ?Chapter 2: Where I Lived, and What I Lived For? (1012-1022) ?Resistance to Civil Government? (953-968) 9th Week Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) ?The Raven? (612-615), ?The Philosophy of Composition? (701-709); Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) ?The May-Pole of Merry Mount? (360-368) 10th Week ?The Cherokee Memorials? (320-325); Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) ?What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?? (1236-1239); Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883) ?Speech to the Women?s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio? (786-787); Angelina Grimke (1805-1879) ?from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South? (783-786) 11th Week The Nineteenth Century: The Later Romantic Poets; Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Poems ?The Robin?s my Criterion for Tune?? [256]; The Soul selects her own Society? [409]; ?My Life had stood ? a Loaded Gun ? ? [764]; ?I taste a liquor never brewed ?? [207] 12th Week Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ?Song of Myself? poems 1, 6, 52 (1312-1357); ?Beat! Beat! Drums!? (1376); End of Semester Review Quiz
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Levine, Robert S, editor. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 9th edition, Volumes A and B, New York, Norton, 2017. American Passages: A Literary Survey The Heath Anthology of American Literature Online Study Center. Handouts in Moodle
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers,Other
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Quiz 3 15 Attendance 5 10 Other 5 15 Total(%) 70 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 70 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 30 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No