NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 美國文學:二十世紀前(4520)
(Eng.) American Literature before the 20th Century
Offering Dept Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Required Credits 3 Teacher 林依蓉
Department Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures(N)Undergraduate Language 中/英文 Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description 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.




Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
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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.



Lecturing
Quiz
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Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Orientation
Week 2 Beginnings to 1820
“Beginnings to 1820” (Introduction, Part 1)
Week 3 Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford (Book II, Chapter XI The Remainder of Anno 1620)
Week 4 ”The Prologue,” “The Author to Her Book,” ”In Memory of My Dear Grandchild,” ”To My Dear Children” by Anne Bradstreet
Week 5 ”To My Dear Children” by Anne Bradstreet
“A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration” of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
Week 6 “A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration” of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson
Week 7 “Beginnings to 1820” (Introduction, Part 2)
Week 8 “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” by Jonathan Edwards
Week 9 Midterm Exam
Week 10 “The Way to Wealth,” The Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
Week 11 “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine
Week 12 “The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson” by Thomas Jefferson
Week 13 “American Literature 1820-1865” (Introduction)
Week 14 “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving
Week 15 Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Week 16 “The American Scholar” by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Week 17 Recapitulation
Week 18 Final Exam
Evaluation
Attendance: 30% (*Students are supposed to follow all rules closely or points will be taken off from the final scores.)
Exams (given in Weeks 9 and 18 respectively): 70% (*No makeup exams for any excuses.)


Textbook & other References
The Norton Anthology of American Literature(Shorter Tenth Edition)
*No e-text is allowed.
A Glossary of Literary Terms (Eleventh Edition)


Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website

Office Hours
By appointment.




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