Major themes in U.S. literature and thought from the end of the Civil War to the present. Selected authors may include Melville, James, Twain, Eliot, Hughes, Hemingway, and Ellison. The course will require critical essays, including a researched paper.

English Elective

Though English 381 is not a prerequisite, this course begins where 381 leaves off and covers select fiction and poetry from the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century to the present. Students study major writers and literary movements; and an effort is made to place literature in its cultural context. Works by such writers as Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, T.S. Eliot, Richard Wright, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Toni Morrison may be included.

Satisfies Flexible Core - US Experience in its Diversity

This series of courses provides students with the chance to study American literature in greater depth. Possible topics include: 1930s Chicago; The Civil War; The Post-War Novel.

English Lit 200-Level Elective

CBA Credit CC - Liberal Arts

Elective Credit

English Elective

Satisfies Flexible Core - US Experience in its Diversity

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 literature written in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. The course covers major literary movements such as Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism and highlights the diverse political, social, and cultural contexts involved in shaping them. Genres such as fiction, poetry, essay, drama, and autobiography by authors such as Hemingway, Toomer, Miller, Morrison, and Silko will be studied.CUNY Pathways: Flexible Core-U.S. Experience in it's Diversity

200-LEVEL ELECTIVE

This course explores the development of American Literature from the Post Civil War period to the present. Principal authors, folklore and literary movements as they reflect the heritage, legacy, and diversity of American culture are studied

American writing from the late nineteenth through the 20th 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

English Elective Credit

Elective Credit

Elective Credit

Elective Credit

English Liberal Arts Elective