Spring 2025
American Literature 1620-1865
Course code: EN242-01 | CRN: 20588 | Credits: 3 | Seats: 4 / 22
This course runs from January 23, 2025 to May 13, 2025 on MWF from 11:15 am to 12:10 pm
This survey course is a study of fiction and non-fiction works by selected American writers, including historical and theoretical foundational knowledge through the lens of gender, race, and class. Students will read, analyze, and discuss literature from the early 1600’s when Indigenous people used oral storytelling to share their cultural and historic heritage to the arrival of pilgrims and other passengers, such as servants and contracted workers looking for a new life in America. Students will then read primary source material from American citizens who fought for an end to colonialism with the Revolutionary war, citizens who wanted an end to the Atlantic slave trade and slavery altogether, and, finally, Americans who wanted individual rights and freedoms for not only themselves, but women and people who were enslaved. Emphasis is placed on the most significant writings of representative authors from 1620-1865.
Use this link to lookup course materials: Official Herkimer County Community College Textbooks
Instructor: Lisa Elwood-Farber