TRIPS TO CAMPUS REQUIRED: 0

ACCESS CODE REQUIRED: No

ORIENTATION INFORMATION: No on-campus orientation is required.

INSTRUCTOR: A. E. Childress

INSTRUCTOR E-MAIL: april.childress@gvltec.edu

INSTRUCTOR'S NOTE: This is a fascinating course, with some great opportunities for reading some fine American literature that covers the time between the Civil War and the bombing of the Twin Towers. Note that both of these are grim events in American history. We won't be dwelling on these cataclysms the entire semester, but realize that such moments do take their toll on the psyche of the American mind, on our identity as Americans. We'll be looking at ourselves a lot this semester as we revisit our past, studying what makes us tick now by looking backwards. We can learn a lot about ourselves by seeing what troubled us in the past. It's interesting to discover that many times those debates we see in the news aren't new debates at all; that those conversations we have about justice or drugs or identity are the same conversations we've been having. So come along and see what we can discover about ourselves by looking over American Literature since the Civil War.

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