ELIT 48A - Major American Writers (Colonial to Romantic, 1620-1865)

    Recent Professors
    Becky Roberts
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026
    Class Size
    Not published
    Credits
    4
    Prerequisite
    Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000H or ESL D005.) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate methods.
    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 explores the reading and critical analysis of representative works by diverse writers such as William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elias Boudinot, Chief Seattle, Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau.
    Usually Held
    Mon Wed 1:30pm–3:20pm