AST 20100 The American Promise

The course is a study of the American dream, American values, and the American experience as portrayed in essays, short stories, poems, plays, and films. The course directs students in examining a culturally diverse American society: goals Americans should try to achieve; assumptions about Americans; what happens when the dream is unfulfilled; what is the nature of the student's own dreams; and how can students attain their dreams. Selected readings will be from early colonial to present day American literature. Student written work will consist both of critical and creative writing.

Credits

3

Offered

Fall semester only.