Division: Communications, Humanities, and the Arts
Department: English
Subject Code: ENGL
Course #: 204
Course Title: Major American Writers II
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 (Insert new/revised digital description below):
Credit hours:
Lecture hours:
Lab hours:
3.0
3.0
3.0
BL: [ ]⅓ [ ]½ [ ]⅔ [ ] Other (Indicate fraction or percent)
2.
Catalog Description (Insert new/revised description below):
Writers from 1865 to the present. Typical works discussed include those by
Twain, Cather, Hemingway, Baldwin, Morrison, and major poets. (Core A)
Minimum Grade Required
3.
Prerequisites:
Co-requisites:
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 works from
the end of the Civil War to the present
Convey a sense of the relevant history and culture that influenced the works
studied
Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of race, gender, and class – as
well as religious, political, ethnic differences - on American literature
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
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Division: Communications, Humanities, and the Arts
Department: English
Subject Code: ENGL
Course #: 204
Course Title: Major American Writers II
5.
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.
Bret Harte
Sarah Orne Jewett
Mary E Wilkins Freeman
Ambrose Bierce
Mark Twain
Kate Chopin
Jack London
Stephen Crane
Henry James
Edith Wharton
Charlotte Perkins-Gilman
Charles Chesnutt
Sui Sin Far
Willa Cather
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Hamlin Garland
Amy Lowell
Ernest Hemingway
E.E.Cummings
John Alan Wyeth, Jr.
Robert Frost
Katherine Anne Porter
Susan Glaspell
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Claude McKay
Langston Hughes
“The Luck of Roaring Camp” 326
“A White Heron” 522
“A New England Nun” 626
“The Revolt of “Mother”’ 635
“Chicka mauga” 366
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” 108
“The Storm” 531
The Awakening 535
“The Law of Life” 1052
“To Build a Fire” 1057
“Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” 957
“Daisy Miller” 391
“Roman Fever” 829
“She Walked Veied and Sleeping” 822
“The Yellow Wallpaper” 808
“Turned” 822
“The Wife of His Youth” 696
“In the Land of the Free” 880
My Antonia 1216
Up From Slavery 663-687
From The Souls of Black Folks 894-910
“Under the Lion’s Paw”
“Red Wind” 1541
“September, 1918” 1353
“Summer Night Piece” 1354
“Letter of August 18, 1918” 1377
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro” 1377
From There Is Confusion 1382
“Fromereville” 1384
“After Apple-Picking” 1398
“The Road not Taken” 1399
“Stopping By Woods” 1403
“Desert Places” 1405
“Designs” 1405
“Directive” 1407
“Flowering Judas” 1690
“Trifles” 1412
All Selections 1707
Quicksand 1722
All poetry 1686
All poetry 2026
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Division: Communications, Humanities, and the Arts
Department: English
Subject Code: ENGL
Course #: 204
Course Title: Major American Writers II
Countee Cullen
Richard Wright
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
Eugene O’Neill
Raymond Chandler
Tennessee Williams
6.
All poetry 2061
“The Man…” 2067
“Winter Dreams” 1823
“Babylon Revisited” 1839
“Snows” 1983
“Barn Burning” 1955
Long Day’s Journey 1610
“Red Wind” 1541
A Streetcar Named Desire 2184
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 kept on file in the
division office.
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:
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Auster, Paul. Leviathan. (Latest Edition).
Baym, Nina, et. al., eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. (Latest
Edition), vol. 2. New York: Norton.
Cather, Willa. My Antoinia. (Latest Edition), Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. (Latest Edition), Boston: St. Martin’s Press.
Egan, Jennifer. A Visit from the Goon Squad. (Latest Edition).
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, Publisher:
Mariner Books, ISBN-10: 0547735022, ISBN-13: 978-0547735023.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. (Latest Edition). Schribner
Gray, Valerie. Avoiding Plagiarism: Communicating Your Message with
Academic and Professional Integrity. Kendall Hunt: Dubuque, IA, 2012.
Griffith, Jr., Kelley. Writing Essays About Literature: A Guide and Style Sheet.
(Latest Edition). New York: Harcourt.
Hemingway, Ernest. The Nick Adams Stories. (Latest Edition), New York:
Scribner.
Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany. (Latest Edition), Random House.
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Division: Communications, Humanities, and the Arts
Department: English
Subject Code: ENGL
Course #: 204
Course Title: Major American Writers II
Kirszner, Laurie and Stephen Mandell, eds. Literature: Reading, Reacting,
Writing. (Latest Edition). Boston: Thomson Wadsworth.
McMichael, George and others. Anthology of American Literature, Vol. II,
Realism to the Present. (Latest Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall.
Perkins, George, and Barbara Perkins, eds. Contemporary American Literature.
(Latest Edition), New York: Random House.
Wright, Richard. Black Boy. (Latest Edition), New York: Harper Collins.
Adjunct Faculty Textbooks:
Baym, Nina, et. al., eds. The Norton Anthology of American Literature, (Latest
Edition), vol. 2. New York, NY: Norton.
8.
Prepared by Faculty Member: Valerie Gray
Date: 9/11/12
9.
Approved by Department Chairperson: Valerie Gray
Date: 9/11/12
10.
Approved by Academic Division Dean: Will Guntrum
Date: 10/8/12
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.
Director, Curriculum Compliance: Erika Steenland
Date: 10/16/12
12.
Provost & VP, Academic Affairs: James E. Baxter, P.G. Date: 10/18/12
13.
Original Date of course approval by the college: 196620
14.
Date(s) of subsequent reviews [Indicate change: Learning Outcomes; textbook(s)]:
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
ko
Revisions: Reviewed March 2006
Revisions made: Learning Outcomes – sm
Reviewed October 2006 Revisions made: Learning Outcomes - ck
Chair and Discipline Approved Revisions: Textbooks – 3/2008
sy
Form 335 Update: No Changes
10/2009 -- ko
Revisions: Textbook additions – 12/2010 -- ko
Project Review: Revisions made : Sequence of Learning, Student Assessment Aug 2011 ck
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Division: Communications, Humanities, and the Arts
Department: English
Subject Code: ENGL
Course #: 204
Course Title: Major American Writers II
Revision: Textbook additions – 10/12/2011 – ko
Revision: Textbook additions – 2/14/12 – ko
Revisions: Textbook additions – 9/11/2012 -- ck
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