Major themes in U.S. literature, thought and history from the colonial period to the end of the Civil War. Selected authors may include Paine, Cooper, Irving, Poe, Thoreau, Emerson, and Whitman. The course will require critical essays, including a researched paper.

English Elective

This course surveys American literature from its colonial beginnings to the American Renaissance of the nineteenth century-from Ann Bradstreet and Cotton Mather to Walt Whitman and Herman Melville. Students learn about the cultural milieu that influenced writers, read major and representative works and sharpen their critical abilities.

Satisfies Flexible Core - US Experience in its Diversity

Flexcore Us Exp&Div

English Lit 200-Level Elective

CBA Credit CC - Liberal Arts

Elective Credit

English Elective

Topics in Literature

This country began as a story told by a select few, depicting a beacon of hope promising freedom and equality. Since then, the story has become one of freedom but also force, power and its abuses, diversity preceded and sustained by division. This course explores literary works that tell the complicated story of America, from its highest principles to its harshest truths, with a particular focus on voices too often excluded from the conversation.

Satisfies Flexible Core - US Experience in its Diversity

This course examines the development of an American literature from colonial/contact period to the emancipation of African Americans at the end of the United States Civil War. It surveys a broad range of writers, texts and themes that have shaped American identities. Fiction, poetry, essays and autobiographical prose by authors such as Douglass, Dickinson, Emerson, Franklin, Rowlands, Wheatley, and Winthrop will be studied.CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-U.S. Experience in it's Diversity

Representative prose, verse, and drama from the colonial period to the present.Note: This course satisfies either Creative Expression or College Option requirement in the CUNY 2013 Gen Ed requirements at Lehman.

Beginning with Native American oral forms and continuing through the Civil War, this course explores principal authors, folklore and literary movements as they reflect the heritage, legacy, and diversity of American Culture.

American writing from the Colonial beginnings to the middle of the 19th century, with emphasis on the literature as an expression of the cultural and intellectual life of the times. Exams and essays based on readings.SATISFIES FLEXIBLE CORE- US EXPERIENCE IN ITS DIVERSITY

Liberal Arts Elective

An introduction to the development of American literature from its beginnings to the twentieth century through a study of selected poetry, drama, fiction, and/or nonfictional prose. Authors studied may include Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman, Dickinson, O'Neill, Hemingway, and Wright. Designed for nonmajors.

Elective Credit

Elective Credit

US Experience in Diversity

English Liberal Arts Elective