AML4121

Twentieth Century American Novel

Course Code:
AML4121

Credit Hours:
3

Effective beginning:
2023-24

Sections:
000

 

Course Description:
This course seeks to facilitate an understanding of the history, structure, and purpose of the American novel as well as strategies for reading and interpreting this particular form. The course will also cover the historical forces and literary movements which affected the evolution of the American novel.

 

Course Details

Prerequisites:

none

 

Instructors:

Amie Myers
myersa@chipola.edu

 

 

Required textbooks/ course materials:

  • The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, Scribner; Thus Edition (October 17, 2006) ISBN: 9780743297332
  • Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner, Vintage; Reissue Edition (January 30, 1991) ISBN: 9780679732181
  • Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell, Scribner; Reissue Edition (May 3, 2011) ISBN: 9781451635621
  • The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, Penguin Classics; Reissue Edition (March 28, 2006) ISBN: 9780143039433
  • Native Son, Richard Wright, Perennial Classics; 1st Edition (August 2, 2005) ISBN: 9780060929800
  • The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger, Back Bay Books; Reissue edition (January 30, 2001). ISBN: 9780316769174
  • Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury, Simon &Schuster; Reissue Edition (January 10, 1012) ISBN: 9781451673319
  • Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov, Vintage; Reissue Edition (April 23, 1989) ISBN: 9780679723424
  • The Color Purple, Alice Walker, Mariner Books; First Edition (November 1, 2006). ISBN: 9780156031820            
  • Beloved, Toni Morrison, Vintage, Reprint Edition (June 8, 2004) ISBN-13: 978-1400033419

 

Assignment/course outline:

see first-day handout

 

Discipline-level learning outcomes:

AML 4121 is a core course for English Education majors in Area 4—Communication.

The purpose of the communications area is to enable the student to read critically and communicate effectively in clear and correct English.

C-1 Communicate effectively in various rhetorical modes

C-2 Evaluate ideas using critical thinking

C-3 Demonstrate appropriate documentation techniques through various assignments

C-4 Analyze human experiences through reading and writing

C-5 Demonstrate the effective use of the conventions of Standard American English

 

Course-level learning outcomes:

Course-level student learning outcomesDiscipline-level learning outcomesAssessment methods

Analyze significant primary American texts, specifically the American novel, as sources of cultural, historical, theoretical and creative expression.

Explain the ways in which each novel expresses the literary theory, culture and values of its time and place.

Practice the critical and analytical methodologies of Literature.

Frame a comparative context through which one can critically assess the ideas, forces, theories and creative expression that have shaped the American novel.

Recognize the ways in which the American novel has affected American history and American literature.

Employ appropriate rhetorical patterns and analysis while demonstrating writing skills. 

1.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.9, 7.1

1.1, 4.4, 4.5, 7.1

3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.9, 7.1

4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 7.1

4.4, 4.5, 7.1

1.3, 2.3, 4.1, 4.2, 4.9, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5 

 UT, H, PS, F, Obs., E, W, DE, RP

 

Means of accomplishing learning outcomes:

  • Teacher facilitated: The teacher will be leading class discussions on the material contained in the text during class periods.
  • Student-centered: The students will take notes, practice solving problems, and make several presentations during class periods.

Office Hours: The instructor will be available during office hours for individual assistance.

 

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