學年/學期Academic Year / Semester

110學年度1學期

科目名稱Course Title

American Literature I

授課方式Course Type

□ Lab □ Seminar □ Practicum ■ Lecture □ other

先修科目Prerequisite

Junior or senior class standing

授課教師Instructor

Banjamin J. Heal

學分數（Credits）

3

上課時間Time

Thursday 13:10-16:00

上課地點（Place）

R149

電郵信箱Email

benheal@hotmail.com

研究室與電話（Office & Phone）

 3 53B

導師時間 Office Hours

By appointment

課程介紹與教學目標 Course Description and Objectives

American Literature I is designed to provide undergraduate students with a general background in English-language American poetry, prose, and fiction from their beginnings to 1865. Overall, the course uses literary works to help students develop a greater understanding of American history, society and culture, to better understand how the United States has become what it is today. The chosen writers therefore are those whose works best lend themselves to such an approach while also representing the most influential American literary themes and traditions. Class time will be devoted primarily to considerations of the cultural, historical and social background as well as discussions of assigned reading selections. Movies and videos will be included as appropriate.

與核心能力指標之關聯 Relevance to Core Competence Indexes

■ 溝通表達與語文能力（Effective Communication and Language Skills）

■ 經典作品解析能力（Classics Comprehension and Analysis）

■ 問題發掘與研究能力（Problem-Solving and Research）

□ 創作與創新能力（Creativity and Innovation）

□ 科技應用能力與科技素養（Technology Application and Literacy）

■ 全球視野與多元文化認知能力（Global Vision and Awareness of Cultural Diversity）

課程要求Course Requirements

上課用書Textbooks and References

Levine, Robert S. editor. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Shorter 8th edition in two volumes. New York: W. W. Norton, 2013.

Additional materials will be provided.

Please respect intellectual property rights and do not illegally photocopy or download the textbook.

學習評量與成績配分Assessment and Grade Distribution

Each student's final course grade will be based on the total percentage earned. Students whose scores indicate a clear improvement from the Mid-Term to the Final, however, will receive an appropriate bonus.

Mid-Term Examination —35% points possible.  This is an in-class, open book essay exam. Students should write a response essay to a topic/text encountered in the first part of the course.
Class test 1 – 10% - a multiple choice test to assess student’s knowledge of the reading.
Class test 2 – 10% - a multiple choice test to assess student’s knowledge of the reading.
Attendance – 5%
Ecourse quizzes – 5%
Final Essay — 35% points possible – a word-processed research essay (800 words), based on a topic/text covered on the course. Must differ from mid-term topic/text.

課程進度Course Schedule : This schedule is tentative and may be changed according to need. See the schedule page at eCourse2 for more complete, updated information.

Week

Contents

Week 01

Introduction to the course
The Pocahontas-John Smith Story – John Smith's Letter to Queen Anne Regarding Pocahontas; Movie: The New World

Week 02

Colonization of America - Beginnings to 1820, pp. 3-10
First Encounters between English and Native Americans; John Smith, pp. 53-69 (Read the introduction to John Smith before reading what he wrote. Do this for every writer we study throughout the semester.)
Beginnings of English Language Literature in America
“Literary New England,” pp. 13-17
William Bradford, from "Of Plymouth Plantation," pp. 73-91; Mayflower Compact

Week 03

Puritan Culture and Religious Doctrine
John Winthrop, "A Model of Christian Charity," pp. 93-104
The Beginnings of Dissent in America
Roger Williams, from The Bloody Tenent of Persecution (1644); "A Plea for Religious Liberty"

Week 04

Individual Struggles with Puritan Culture and Religious Doctrine
Anne Bradstreet, "The Prologue," pp. 114-15; "The Author to Her Book, ” pp. 122-23; "Before the Birth of One of Her Children," pp. 123-24; "To My Dear and Loving Husband," p. 124, ". . . Verses upon the Burning of Our House , . . ." pp. 125-27
Edward Taylor, “Prologue,” pp. 153-54; “Upon Wedlock and the Death of Children,” pp. 157-58; “Huswifry,” p. 158

Week 05

The End of the Puritan Theocracy; Cotton Mather, from Wonders of the Invisible World, pp. 160-65; Cotton Mather and the Salem Witch Trials; Salem Witchcraft Trials (Smithsonian); Movie: The Crucible

Week 06

The American Enlightenment; Enlightenment Ideals, pp. 17-20
Benjamin Franklin, “The Way to Wealth,” vol. 1, pp. 236-42; “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America,” pp. 216-20; The Autobiography, pp. 220-84

Week 07

The Melting Pot;J. Hector St. John de Creveceour, From Letters from an American Farmer, pp. 309-23
Slavery and the Beginnings of the Abolitionist Movement; Olaudah Equiano, From The Interesting Narrative of the Life..., pp. 372-405

Week 08

Revolution and Political Independence;  Thomas Jefferson, From The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, pp. 354-60; From Notes on the State of Virginia, pp. 816--19;

Week 09

Mid-Term Examination

Week 10

Introduction to Romanticism; Romantic Views of Man's Place in Nature; The Noble Savage; James Fenimore Cooper, From The Last of the Mohicans, pp. 529-36; Movie: The Last of the Mohicans

Week 11

Cultural Independence, Romantic Individualism and Self-Reliance; Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The American Scholar," pp. 582-95, "Self-Reliance," pp. 596-613; Walt Whitman, "A Noiseless Patient Spider"

Week 12

Romantic Individualism and Self-Reliance; Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government," pp. 903-18; From Walden, or Life in the Woods: “Economy,” pp. 920-962; “Where I Lived and What I lived For” and "Solitude," pp. 962-72; "Conclusion," pp. 988-96

Week 13

Romanticism and the Dark Side of the Soul: Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown,” pp. 668-77; Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven," pp. 735-38; “The Tell-Tale Heart," pp. 762-66; “The Purloined Letter,” pp. 772-85

Week 14

Romanticism and the Dark Side of the Soul: Herman Melville, “Bartleby, the Scrivener,” pp. 1157-83

Slavery and Abolition: Frederick Douglass, From Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass . . . , pp. 1000-66, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" pp. 1066-69;

Week 15

Slavery and the Civil War: Harriet Beecher Stowe, From Uncle Tom's Cabin, pp. 840-73
Abraham Lincoln, “

Week 16

Romantic Poetry: Walt Whitman, "O Captain! My Captain!", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," pp. 1148-54; Preface to Leaves of Grass, pp. 1073-87; From Leaves of Grass, pp. 1088-1132; From Drum Taps, pp. 1145-48

Week 17

Emily Dickinson, Poems #39, 112, 202, 340, 359, 372, 479, 591, 1069, 1263, 1773, p. 1250ff; Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, pp. 1273-75

Week 18

Final Examination

與教育部職能診斷UCAN的關聯Relevance to UCAN of MOE

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