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課程名稱 (中) 美國文學:二十世紀迄今(4521)
(Eng.) American Literatrue since the 20th Century
開課單位 夜外文
課程類別 必修 學分 3 授課教師 林依蓉
選課單位 夜外文 / 進修學士班 授課使用語言 中文 英文/EMI N 開課學期 1092
課程簡述 This course introduces major writers and their works in various periods of American history. Each writer and his or her writing are explored against the broader social, economic, political and cultural context. The goal is to help students see the respective cultural configuration of each historical period and have a better grasp of how American culture has come to what it is today.

先修課程名稱
課程含自主學習 N
課程與核心能力關聯配比(%) 課程目標之教學方法與評量方法
課程目標 核心能力 配比(%) 教學方法 評量方法
The goal of this course is to help students see the respective cultural configuration of each historical period and have a better grasp of how American culture has come to what it is today.
1.外語能力
2.專業知識能力
50
50
講授
測驗
出席狀況
授課內容(單元名稱與內容、習作/每週授課、考試進度-共18週)
Reading List:
American Literature 1820-1865
“American Literature 1820-1865” (Introduction)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature, “The American Scholar”
Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven,”
Whitman, Walt. “Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855),” “Song of Myself (1881)”
Dickinson, Emily. Poems 202[185], 269[249], 320[258], 339[241], 409[303], 448[449],
479[712], 591[465]
American Literature 1865-1914
“American Literature1865-1914” (Introduction)
Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
James, Henry. “The Beast in the Jungle”
London, Jack. “To Build a Fire”
American Literature between the Wars 1914-1945
“American Literature between the Wars 1914-1945” (Introduction)
Frost, Robert. “After Apple-picking,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Birches,”
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” “Desert Places,” “Design”
Stevens, Wallace: “The Snow Man,” “Sunday Morning,” “Anecdote of the Jar,”
“Of Modern Poetry”
Williams, William Carlos: “Portrait of a Lady,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,”
“A Sort of a Song”
Pound, Ezra. “In a Station of a Metro,” “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
Eliot, T. S. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” “The Waste Land”
學習評量方式
Requirements: Attendance 30% (Students are not allowed to take the final exam if missing more than 30% of classes. In addition, students are supposed to follow all rules closely or points will be taken off from the final scores.)
Exams: 70% (*No makeup exams for any excuses.)
教科書&參考書目(書名、作者、書局、代理商、說明)
The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter Ninth Edition

課程教材(教師個人網址請列在本校內之網址)
A Glossary of Literary Terms
From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
林依蓉老師 美國文學 110.5.19 (三) https://youtu.be/EOGbdRg60rM

課程輔導時間
By appointment.
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