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Subject Guides such as this one were designed to support your class assignments and learning outcomes. Feel free to explore the other Subject Guides and other LibGuides to learn more about different topics you are studying and that interest you.
- Lori Warren, Instructional Services Librarian
Here are some of the skills you may learn in various literature courses and apply to other future courses:
Learning Outcomes- Students will demonstrate the ability to:
- Recognize representative samples of American Writers and the common writing formats of those eras;
- Discuss the writers, their backgrounds, and their works;
- Analyze the cultural settings of the writings;
- Demonstrate in oral and written form enhanced skill in discussing and analyzing literature, at times utilizing library research methods, and in relating the past to the present concerns;
- Develop a deeper understanding of what it means to be an “American.”
- Trace the progression and eclecticism of American literature from the late 19th
century into the 21st century;
- Recognize American literature’s connection with past, present, and future insights
into humanity, and literature’s ability to inspire writers, readers, and thinkers, of all
times;
- Analyze the multicultural diversity in modern American life and literature;
- Read critically in order to analyze, interpret, and evaluate relationships demonstrated
in the literature;
- Apply, via writing and speaking, terminology and methodology related to literary
criticism