ENGL C150 - American Literature through the Civil War

    Recent Professors
    Jamie Greuel, Marilyn Brock, Meri Rogoff
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026, Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021
    Class Size
    45 students
    Credits
    3
    Prerequisite
    ENGL C1000.
    Fall 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2
    Description
    This course is designed to expose students to the legends, poetry, short stories, and essays of early American writers beginning with Native Americans, through Colonialism to the Civil War. Students will examine the philosophical, cultural, religious, and historic elements related to these texts. Attention will be paid to literary devices and styles evident in individual works and the commentary made by these works on moral and social issues. Writers include Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Phillis Wheatley, William Apess, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edgar Allen Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Washington Irving, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and many others. C-ID: ENGL 130.