Recent SemestersFall 2026Class SizeNot publishedCredits3PrerequisiteEligibility for college-level composition (C-ID ENGL 100) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method. OR Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionA survey of early American literature from pre-conquest and early contact, up to the Civil War. Students will read critically and analytically in genres ranging from transcribed oral legends through exploration and captivity narratives, religious tracts, letters, philosophical essays, diaries, novels, short stories, and poems 