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INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
ELL207 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE 3 3 3 6

Objectives and Contents

Objectives: This course aims to develop a sense of a literature and culture based on racially and ethnically different background and to explore crucial features of the American cultural and literary experience in different genres, like short story, poem and novel, from the colonial period to the Antebellum Era.
Content: This course is a survey in American literature dating back to discovery of America, and the syllabus is therefore designed to introduce a variety of different American writers, scholars and political figures from the colonial period to the Antebellum Era.