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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf Study, Virtual ClassroomVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate Availability
no

The Syllabus

  • Welcome and Background Information
  • Required: Login to Lacuna Stories and YellowDig
  • Introduce Yourself
  • Pre Course Survey
  • Getting help in this course

  • Introduction to Emerson
  • Discussion: Emerson
  • Turning Point: Transcendentalism
  • Emerson as an American Scholar
  • Turning Point: The Anti-Slave (1 Question)
  • Emerson Annotations (1 Question)

  • Introduction to Douglass
  • Discussion: Douglass
  • Turning Point: Abolitionism
  • Turning Point: The Decision to Narrate His Life
  • Turning Point: Life and Times (1 Question)
  • Douglass Annotations (1 Question)
  • Office Hours: Emerson and Douglass

  • Discussion: Whitman
  • Introduction to Whitman
  • Turning Point: Whitman the Printer
  • Turning Point: Revisionist
  • Writing Assignment: Whitman (1 Question)
  • Whitman Annotations (1 Question)

  • Discussion: Hawthorne
  • Introduction to Hawthorne
  • Turning Point: Shift from Civil Servant to Author
  • Turning Point: The Scarlet Letter wins world-wide acclaim as a representative American classic
  • A Series of Turning Points: The Scaffolding of The Scarlet Letter
  • Turning Point: Hawthorne’s Art of Second Thinking
  • Writing Assignment: Hawthorne (1 Question)
  • Hawthorne Annotations (1 Question)
  • Office Hours: Whitman and Hawthorne

  • Melville Checklist
  • Discussion: Melville
  • Introduction to Melville
  • Turning Point: Melville’s Introduction to Whaling
  • Turning Point: Scenes of Survival
  • Writing Assignment Melville (1 Question)
  • Melville Annotations (1 Question)
  • Office Hours: Melville

  • Stowe Checklist
  • Discussion: Stowe
  • Introduction to Stowe: The Melodramatic Imagination
  • Turning Point: Protest and Evangelism
  • Turning Point: The Power of Sympathy
  • Stowe Annotations (1 Question)

  • Twain Checklist
  • Discussion: Twain
  • Introduction to Twain
  • Turning Point: Confronting the Past
  • Turning Point: The Black Mirror
  • Turning Point: Huck Finn's Autobiography
  • Writing Assignment: Looking Backward (1 Question)
  • Twain Annotations (1 Question)
  • Office Hours: Stowe and Melville
  • Post-Course Survey

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