A Survery of American literature focuses primarily on prose and poetry, with some drama, from1865 to the present. Students will work with writers such as Whitman, Dickinson, James, Wharton, Crane, Dunbar, Stein, Frost, Elliot, Pound, Faulkner, Miller, Hurston, Ellison, O'Connor, Wright and Plath. Class participation includes students' ongoing assessments of their own learning strategies, goals, and attempts to become more critical readers and writers.
Attendance is, of course, mandatory.
If you miss more than four class meetings, your grade will be negatively affected. If you miss more than seven class meetings, you will fail this course. Habitual tardiness will negatively affect your grade. Please come to see me in the event that you have a serious, personal emergency. I understand that some students may be more shy than others when it comes to speaking in class.