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This course satisfies part of the Communication Skills graduation requirement.
This section is Communication Skills intensive. Communication Skills I-V must be completed before taking this course.
Session, Dates: 1 (08/27/2012 - 12/15/2012) Days: T R Time: 12:15 - 01:30 pm Location: Moon Campus Room: Wheatley Center 112 Seats Available: 6 Seats Credits: 3
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This course examines the historical growth, philosophical premises, and literary techniques of important writers in American literature up through the Civil War. Students read a wide, diverse range of literature, such as Native American, Spanish American, and African American literatures, in the genres of fiction, essays, poetry, journals, autobiographies, and slave narratives. Students also study aesthetic and intellectual movements such as Neo-classicism, Romanticism, and Transcendentalism. The course focuses on historical development with emphasis on the American Renaissance of the 1850's. Students investigate print, internet resources, and electronic databases and write literacy research essays in MLA format.
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Connie M. Ruzich, Ph.D.
University Professor of English
English Department
ruzich@rmu.edu 412-397-6453 phone 412-397-6468 fax Wheatley Center 220 Profile |