Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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ENG 3230 - American Literature: 1918 to Present
Authors, works, and genres of American literature from the 20th- century to the present.
Requisites: ENG 2010 or 2020 or 250 or 2 courses above ENG 200 or (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- An exploration of the techniques used by this era’s literary artists to challenge readers’ preconceived notions of value and order.
- Attitudes toward gender, class, ethnicity and race in this period.
- Examine twentieth and twenty-first century American writings, their stylistic innovations and disruption of traditional syntax and form.
- The relationship of American literature during this period to global literary ideas and form.
- Understanding terms and movements such as Modernism, Postmodernism, Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Transnationalism as they pertain to the literature of this period.
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