School of Communication and Media
Undergraduate

Term: Spring 2026
Session: Full Term (Jan 20 - May 08)
Start Date: Tuesday, Jan 20, 2026
End Date: Friday, May 08, 2026
Availability: On Campus
Day(s): Tues.
Time: to

This course enables students to engage in detailed literary study of selected major figures in American literature. Students will read a number of texts in their historical literary aesthetic or social context in order to analyze the economic social political aesthetic and philosophical concerns of an author or small group of authors. A variety of rhetorical and literary critical approaches will be used. Students will compile annotated bibliographies make oral presentations write short papers defining critical problems and write one major scholarly essay or creative project as a result of their research.Credits: 3