교과목개요
3학년 1학기에 개설되는 강좌인 <영문학사>가 영국문학 전반을 다루는 관계로,
2학년 2학기에 개설되는 이 강좌는 미국문학 전반을 고찰한다.
Course Description & Objective:
This course explores American literature, focusing on its multicultural tradition--earliest explorer narratives,
Puritan writings, captivity narratives, nineteenth-century romances, slave narratives, Modernist poetry,
twentieth-century fiction, contemporary ethnic-American novels, etc.--ranging from the fifteenth century to the present. Moreover, comparing early American literature to its modern-day representations, we will have a chance to discuss
the ever-changing relationships between what America used to be and what America is (or will be).
Required Text:
Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Sixth Edition
Suggested List of Authors:

Christopher Columbus	Cabeza de Vaca	John Smith
William Bradford	John Winthrop	Mary Rowlandson
Emerson	Longfellow	Thoreau
Edgar Allan Poe	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Herman Melville
Harriet Beecher Stowe	Frederick Douglass	Walt Whitman
Mark Twain	Henry James	Zitkala Sa
Robert Frost	Carl Sandburg	Wallace Stevens
William Carlos Williams	Claude McKay	Langston Hughes
Willa Cather	F. Scott Fitzgerald	Ernest Hemingway
Zora Neale Hurston	William Faulkner	John Steinbeck
Richard Wright	Ralph Ellison	Saul Bellow
Robert Lowell	Allen Ginsberg	Thomas Pynchon
Toni Morrison	Maxine Hong Kingston	Leslie Marmon Silko
(A few more may be added to this list.)

학점구성 및 평가기준
학점분포 Relative Evaluation(상대평가): A+ 10% | A0 20% | B+/B0 40% | C+/ C0/ D+/ D0 30%
학점구성 Attendance 10% | 1st Presentation 10% | Midterm Exam 35% | 2nd Presentation 10% | Final Exam 35%
시험 Test Item Formats(문제유형): 1) fill-in-the-blank 2) short answer 3) essay
숙제 Two Presentations
F학점 처리기준 (a) 부정행위자 (b) 종합점수 평균 30점 미만은 F학점의 대상임
| (c) 수업시간 1/3 이상 결석시 출석미달처리
| (d) 특별한 사유없이 중간 또는 기말고사를 실시하지 않은 경우
강의내용 및 일정

No Suggested List of Authors: 교재 내 범위 1 Introduction & Presentation Scheduling   2 Earliest Explorer Narratives (Columbus; Cabezade Vaca; John Smith) Literatureto1700 3 Puritan Writings (William Bradford; John Winthrop; Cotten Matter) Literatureto1700 4 Captivity Narratives & Slave Narratives Literatureto1700; American Literature 1700-1820 5 Nineteenth-century Poetry & Essays American Literature 1820-1865 6 Nineteenth-century Romances(Nathaniel Hawthorne) American Literature 1820-1865 7 Nineteenth-century Romances(Edgar Allan Poe) American Literature 1820-1865 8 Midterm Exam   9 Modernist Poetry American Literature between the Wars 1914-1945 10 Modernist Poetry American Literature between the Wars 1914-1945 11 Twentieth-century Fiction American Literature between the Wars 1914-1945 12 Twentieth-century Fiction American Literature between the Wars 1914-1945 13 Twentieth-century Fiction American Prosesince 1945 14 Contemporary Ethnic-American Narratives American Prosesince 1945 15 Final Exam