ENG 3020 - Survey of American Literature I

Institution:

CUNY Bernard M Baruch College

Subject:

English

Description:

3 hours; 3 credits This course explores the development of American liter - ature, both prose and poetry, from its beginnings in Native American oral forms through the Civil War. Included is the literature of discovery and exploration, of abolition, and of American transcendentalism. To be studied are such writers as Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. Prerequisite: ENG 2150 or ENG/LTT 2800 or 2850 or departmental permission.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.baruch.cuny.edu

Phone Number:

(646) 312-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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