TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree With Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	First Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	. Fef Komite
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to situate the major periods and movements in American literature within a historical and conceptual framework, 2) will be able to discuss some of the themes that have preoccupied American writers in their attempts to define, explore, and question aspects of American culture and identity.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This is a course designed to provide an overview of American literature in order to prepare a contextual framework for the seminars. The approach used will be conceptual as well as historical.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week The Colonial Period to the Revolution: General introduction on the early settlements, the colonial and Puritan perceptions of America, and building a new nation: John Smith, William Bradford, Thomas Morton, John Winthrop; the natives and the colonists: Roger Williams and Mary Rowlandson; Puritanism and Puritan literature; 2nd Week Anne Bradstreet, Michael Wigglesworth, Edward Taylor, and Cotton Mather; 3rd Week The expansion of the colonial settlements, the introduction of slavery, the colonial economy, the political awakening of the colonies, the impact of the European Enlightenment, and the American Revolution. The literature of the period. 4th Week The Revolution to the Civil War: Life and society in post-Revolution America, search for new modes and forms in literature. 5th Week References to the writings of the period. 6th Week The Civil War to World War I: The social, political, cultural, and economic causes of the Civil War, the North-South conflict, the inception of the so-called "Second Republic" era after the war, and the Reconstruction. 7th Week Developments and movements in American culture and literature in the post-Civil War period to the end of the nineteenth century, black writing, early twentieth-century American culture and literature to World War I. 8th Week References to, and studies of the authors and their works. 9th Week World War I to World War II: American culture and literature in the interbellum period (World War I to World War II); the social, political and cultural context; The Harlem Renaissance; 10th Week Sample readings from, and references to, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Wallace Stevens, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Hilda Doolittle, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Hart Crane, Allen Tate. 11th Week Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, Lillian Hellman. 12th Week World War II to the Present: American culture and literature from the 1940s to the present, studied through sample readings and with reference to the social, political and cultural context of the period; 13th Week References to the works of Robert Penn Warren, Theodore Roetke, Robert Hayden, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Charles Olson, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Duncan, Robert Creely, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton; 14th Week Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Denise Chavez, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Adrienne Kennedy, Sam Shepard, Edward Albee.
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	The Norton Anthology of American Literature.Ed. Nina Baym et al., 8th edn., 6 vols. New York: Norton, 2012. A People and a Nation: A History of the United States.Ed. Mary Beth Norton et al. 7th edn. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Spiller, Robert, et al., eds. Literary History of the United States. Gura, Philip F.The Crossroads of American History and Literature. Cunliffe, Marcus. The Literature of the United States. Elliott, Emory. Columbia Literary History of the United States.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Presentation,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 2 60 Other 1 15 Total(%) 75 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 75 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 25 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 2 3 6 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 3 42 Preparation for Final exam 1 10 10 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 2 5 10 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 3 3 Homework Weekly Articles and Resource Research 14 3 42 Total Workload 155 Total Workload / 30 5,16 ECTS Credits of the Course 5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No