Student Expectations
Live Literature Classes:
Attend a one-hour, weekly, live course session
Complete each week’s assigned reading
Take a short, online comprehension quiz each week
Answer a weekly, online discussion question
Submit two literary analysis papers and one creative project
American Literature
This concise survey of American literature begins with folk-tales from the indigenous people of North America. We will read poetry from the colonial period as well as some writings by founding fathers. We’ll cover some of the earliest American writers: Irving, Poe, and Hawthorn. We’ll read Hawthorne’s classic The Scarlet Letter and three of the perennial frontrunners for the title of Great American Novel: Moby Dick, Huck Finn, and The Great Gatsby. The course will cover poetry and a sampling of 20th Century writers like Faulkner, Hemingway, and O’Connor. We’ll conclude with Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and a late 20th Century novel (TBA).
Please see the course calendar for meeting time. All class sessions will be recorded.