But, since human conflicts occur in particular cultural contexts, a second crucial course goal is to examine portrayals in U. S. literatures of some of the major conflicts experienced by diverse peoples in the multicultural context of the United States. Currently the lead teachers are requiring The Heath Anthology of American Literature , Volume 2, Second Edition, 1994.
Sections sometimes require novels in combination with collections of shorter pieces of literature.
Sections also sometimes additionally require a dictionary of literary terms and a handbook of writing. None, as a rule, although students are sometimes required to meet individually or in small groups with the instructor or a teaching assistant to conference on rough or subsequent drafts of formal papers or on group work. This writing may be collected and checked daily or at longer intervals. Sometimes students are asked to select and resubmit their best entries for qualitative evaluation at the end of the quarter. Quizzes are evaluated for accuracy and also for specificity when short written responses are called for.