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ENGL 250: GREAT AMERICAN BOOKS "Arms and the Man" |
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Course Goals |
Course Goals:
As in introductory-level literature course, our most important goals will be; * to acquire the basic tools to talk and write about literary works in general, * to learn to appreciate important works of American fiction, * to scrutinize the title “Great American Books” and evaluate the assigned books in relation to the course title, * to acquire critical perspectives on the social history of the US as reflected in literature, * to analyze the ways in which war has affected the human psyche in general, and the American psyche, in particular. |
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