Department: English
Discipline: Literature
Subject Code: ENGL
Course #: 203
Course Title: Major American Writers I
HARRISBURG AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
FORM 335
Course Form 335 must be updated at least every five years per AP 765 to include, at
a minimum, the following elements. [§335.2]
1.
Digital Description:
Credit hours:
Lecture hours:
Lab hours:
3.0
3.0
0.0
BL: [ ]⅓ [ ]½ [ ]⅔ [ ] Other (Indicate fraction or percent)
2.
Catalog Description:
Texts from the earliest period through 1865. Typical writers discussed
include Edwards, Hawthorne, Poe, Douglass, and Dickinson. (Core A)
Minimum Grade Required
3.
Prerequisites:
Corequisites:
Other: Eligibility for enrollment in ENGL 101 and completion of any
reading courses required by the College Testing and Placement Program.
4.
Learning Outcomes
[These outcomes are necessary to enable students to attain the essential
knowledge and skills embodied in the program’s educational objectives.]
Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:
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Convey an understanding of great literature in general by articulating the
interplay of its characters, style, structure, tone and themes
Demonstrate a working knowledge of representative American literature,
including writers from a variety of religious racial, gender, ethnic back
grounds, and differing political/philosophical views, from the earliest
European exploration of the Americas (1492) through the Civil War
(1865)
Convey a sense of changing world history and culture that influenced
American literature, religious beliefs, politics and philosophy
Identify how earlier American literature mirrored other countries’ literary,
cultural, philosophical, and religious beliefs (England, France, Spain)
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Department: English
Discipline: Literature
Subject Code: ENGL
Course #: 203
Course Title: Major American Writers I
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Trace the emergence of a distinctly American identity, reflected in literature, politics, and culture, that exerted influence and direction on other
world literature and cultures
Understand the impact of race, gender, social class as well as religious,
political, and ethnic differences on the development of American literature, often determining public acceptance of writers and subjects
Apply knowledge, reading skills, and values learned from the course in
reading similar works
Use the library and other information sources to research relevant literary
criticism, history, and culture
Planned Sequence of Instruction
[These must be designed to help students achieve the learning outcomes.]
Choice of readings is up to the instructor. The following is a sample outline.
Christopher Columbus
John Smith
William Bradford
John Winthrop
Thomas Morton
Anne Bradstreet
Mary Rowlandson
Samuel Sewall
Cotton Mather
“Letter to Ferdinand and Isabella,,,,” 33-35
from The General History of Virginia, New
England, and Summer Isles, pp. 55-57, 57-66
Of Plymouth Plantation, pp. 104-123, 126-129, 132-138
“A Model of Christian Charity” pp. 147-158
From New England Canaan 139-146
11 poems: “The Prologue,” pp. 188-189
“In Honor of Queen Elizabeth,” pp. 189-193
“To the Memory of My Dear and Ever
Honored Father,” pp. 193-195
“To Her Father with Some Verses,” p. 195
“To My Dear and Loving Husband,” p. 263
“A Letter to Her Husband,” p. 206
“In Reference to Her Children,” pp. 208-210
“In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth,”
p. 210
“In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne,”
pp. 210-211
“On My Dear Grandchild Simon,” p. 211
“Upon the Burning of Our House,” pp. 212-213
“As Weary Pilgrim” pp. 213-214
Letter: “To My Dear Children” pp. 214-217
“A Narrative of the Captivity..of Mrs. Rowlandson,”
236-237
from “The Diary of Samuel Sewall,” 288-303; The Selling of
Joseph, 303-306
“Hannah Dustan’s Captivity and Revenge,” 343-346;
Carver 347
“The Mother’s Revenge,” 348-350 and 350-351
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Department: English
Discipline: Literature
Subject Code: ENGL
Course #: 203
Course Title: Major American Writers I
Thoreau from A Week on the Concord and Merrimac River,
350-351
William Byrd
From The Secret Diary of William Byrd of Westover 378-384
Native American
“Native Americans: Contact and Conflict” 437-438, 439-440;
(optional)
441-443; 445-447; 448-449
Benjamin Franklin
Introduction to Franklin 449-451
Autobiography, Parts 1-3
Phillis Wheatley
All poetry pp.751-762
Royall Tyler
The Contrast pp. 764-805
John Adams, Abigail Adams Letters 617-627
Judith Sargent Murray
Excerpt from The Gleaner,; also,
“On the Equality of the Sexes” pp. 733-741
Hannah Webster Foster
The Coquette 807-904
James F Cooper
from The Pioneers pp. 988-1002; from The Last of
the Mohicans, 1003-1009
William C. Bryant
“Thanatopsis; To a Waterfowl” 1045-1048
Native Americans
Black Hawk, 1253-1256; Cherokee Memorials 1263-1268;
(optional)
Emerson's letter to Martin Van Buren, 1268-1271
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Headnotes pp. 1106-7;
excerpts from Chapter 1 “Nature,” pp. 1110-1122
“American Scholar,” 1138 to “It remains to say
somewhat of this duties…”
“The Divinity School Address,” pp. 1151- 1162
“Self-Reliance,” pp. 1163-1179
“Thoreau,” 1231-1244
Henry David Thoreau
Introduction, 1853-1857;
“Slavery in Massachusetts,” 2046-2056
“A Plea for Captain John Brown,” 2056-2060
Edgar Allan Poe
Introduction, 1528-1532;
“Ligea” 1543
“The Fall of the House of Usher,” 1553
“The Raven,” pp. 1543-1565
“The Purloined Letter,” pp. 1599-1611
“Israfel,” pp. 1533-34
“To Helen,” 1532-33
“The Philosophy of Composition,” pp. 1617-1625
“To Ulalume: A Ballad,” pp. 1539-1542
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Young Goodman Browne,” pp. 1289-1298
“The Minister’s Black Veil,” pp. 1311-1320
“The Birth Mark,” pp. 1320-1332
“Rappaccini’s Daughter,” pp. 1332-1352
The Scarlett Letter pp. 1377-1495
Frederick Douglass
“Introduction,” 2060-2061
Narrative of the Life, pp. 2064-2129
Excerpt from My Bondage and My Freedom,
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Department: English
Discipline: Literature
Subject Code: ENGL
Course #: 203
Course Title: Major American Writers I
Harriet Beacher Stowe
Angelina Grimke
Harriet Jacobs
Walt Whitman
6.
pp. 2129-2140
Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1901-1992
from “Appeal to the Christian Women of the South”
1692
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 1808-1829
selected poetry 2190-2288
Assessment of Student Learning
[Methods of assessment should be appropriate for Learning Outcomes listed
above.]
Assessment of student learning outcomes for the course, as required by AP 765, is
part of regular curriculum maintenance and/or improvement. The specific plan
has been determined by the pertinent faculty involved and is maintained in the
College’s assessment management system.
Student learning-outcome-oriented assignments will be evaluated for quality
by a group of English instructors.
7.
List of Texts, References, Selected Library Resources or other Learning
Materials (code each item based on instructional use): C-Lecture/Laboratory,
A-Lecture, B-Laboratory, LC-Lecture/Clinical, CLN-Clinical, I-Online,
BL-Blended, D-Independent Study, P-Private Lessons, E-Internship,
F-Cooperative Work-Study, FE-Field Experience. [These resources must be easily
accessible to students.]
Full-Time Faculty Textbooks:
Baym, Nina, et. al., eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. 1.
(latest edition). New York, NY: W.W. Norton.
Selected Library Resources:
Brooks, Cleanth, R.W.B. Lewis, and Robert Penn Warren. American Literature:
The Makers and the Making. (latest edition). New York: St. Martins
Cannady, Joan. Black Images in American Literature. (latest edition). Rochelle
Park, NJ:
Hayden Grob, Gerald N., and Robert N. Beck. American Ideas: Source Readings
in the Intellectual History of the United States.(latest editon). New York:
Free Press of Glencoe
Simon, Myron. Ethnic Writers in America. (latest edition) New York: Harcourt
Adjunct Faculty Textbooks
Baym, Nina, et. al., eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. 1.
(latest edition). New York, NY: W.W. Norton.
8.
Prepared by Faculty Member: Raymond Sherer.
Date: 8/26/11
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Department: English
Discipline: Literature
Subject Code: ENGL
Course #: 203
Course Title: Major American Writers I
9.
10.
Approved by Department Chairperson: Valerie Gray
Date: 8/26/11
Approved by Academic Division Dean: Thaddeus Sampson
Date: 8/26/11
This course meets all reimbursement requirements of Chapter 335,
subchapters A / B.
This course was developed, approved, and offered in accordance with the
policies, standards, guidelines, and practices established by the College. It is
consistent with the college mission.
If the course described here is a transfer course, it is comparable to similar
courses generally accepted for transfer to accredited four-year colleges and
universities.
11.
Associate Dean, Curriculum & Assessment: Erika Steenland (Interim)
Date: 9/15/11
12.
Provost & VP, Academic Affairs: Ronald R. Young
13.
Original Date of course approval by the college: 196610
14.
Date(s) of subsequent reviews [Indicate change: Learning Outcomes; textbook(s)]:
Date: 9/15/11
1970, 1975, 1979, 1984, 1988, 1993, 1998
Planned Sequence updated: November 2002
Textbooks updated; April 2002
Textbooks revised: April 2003
Reviewed 12/2003. Revisions made: None. Skm
Project Review: 12/2004: Revisions: Planned Sequence of Learning Activities
Revisions: Reviewed March 2006
Revisions made: Learning Outcomes – sm
Reviewed October 2006
Revisions made Learning Outcomes - ck
Revisions: Made to Learning Outcomes October 4, 2007 cmk
Project Review: Sequence of Learning; Student Assessment 8/26/2011 ck
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