MODERN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify key issues and themes in selected fiction, prose, drama and poetry written by Americans from the early twentieth century to the present day. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify key critical and theoretical concerns within these literary texts. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify key issues and themes in selected fiction, prose, drama and poetry written by Americans from the early twentieth century to the present day. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify key critical and theoretical concerns within these literary texts. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Undergraduate