TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to investigate how stories and rituals contribute to the formation of American cultural identity, 2) will be able to discuss the cultural and social significance of stories and storytelling.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	The course familiarizes students with some of the foundational stories of American culture and its subcultures, develops an awareness of the importance of story in cultural formation and develops the skill of interpreting myth and ritual in its cultural context.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction; Barden, Thomas E. Folklore and American Democratic Literature, Emory Eliott and Jackie Stallcup, American Oral Tradition 2nd Week Forging the Nation: The European and/against the Indigeneous: Benjamin Franklin, Information to Those Who Would Remove to America; Royall Tyler, The Contrast 3rd Week Tricksters in Native American Folklore and Literature: Trickster Tales: From the Winnebago Trickster Cycle; Zitkala ?a, Iktomi and the Fawn; Gerald Vizenor, Almost Browne 4th Week Tricksters in African-American Folklore and Literature: Joel Chandler Harris, The Wonderful Tar Baby Story; How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr Fox; Zora Neale Hurston, High John de Conquer 5th Week American Folklore into Literature: The Tall Tale: Thomas Bangs Thorpe, The Big Bear of Arkansas; Mark Twain, The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County 6th Week MID-TERM EXAMINATION I 7th Week Pioneer Narratives: Daniel Webster from First Settlement of New England; Caroline Stansbury Kirkland from A New Home?Wholl Follow; or, Glimpses of Western Life; Francis Parkman Jr. from The California and Oregon Trail 8th Week American Literary Genres: The Captivity Narrative; Mary Rowlandson, A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson 9th Week American Literary Genres: The Slave Narrative; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave 10th Week Immigrant Narratives in Fiction: Willa Cather, Neighbour Rosicky 11th Week Rudolofo A. Anaya, The Christmas Play; Carlos Bulosan, Be American 12th Week MID-TERM EXAMINATION II 13th Week Autobiograpical Narratives; Maxine Hong Kingston, No Name Woman; Gloria Anzaldua, La conciencia de la mestiza / Towards a New Consciousness 14th Week Creative Nonfiction: Creative Nonfiction
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Ammons, Elizabeth, and Annette White-Parks, editors. Tricksterism in the Turn of the Century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective. Hanover and London, UP of New England, 1994. Barden, Thomas E. Folklore and American Democratic Literature. Representing and Imagining America, edited by Philip John Davies, Keele, Keele UP, 1996. 57-65. Bronner, Simon. Following Tradition : Folklore in the Discourse of American Culture, Logan, UT, Utah State UP, 1998. Proquest Ebook Central. Brunvand, Jan Harold, editor. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia. New York and London, Garland, 1996. Bryant, Jerry H. Born in a Mighty Bad Land: The Violent Man in African American Folklore and Fiction. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana UP, 2003. Proquest Ebook Central. Le Beau, Bryan F. America Imagines Itself in Its National Holidays: Collective Memories of the Founding Fathers. Representing and Imagining America, edited by Philip John Davies, Keele, Keele UP, 1996. 45-53. Leeming, David Adams, general editor. The Storytelling Encyclopedia. Phoenix, AZ, Oryx, 1997. Levine, Robert S., general editor. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 9th edition, New York, Norton, 2017. Smith, Jeanne Rosier. Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Literature. Berkeley, CA, U of California P, 1997.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Presentation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 2 60 Assignment 5 10 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