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Credits: 2                                                                                            

Coefficient: 1

Course Objectives

-To read and study different texts, authors and literature

-To write a simple literary commentary on the studied texts

 

Prerequisite

-Knowledge and strategies acquired from S1 to S2

- Mastery of English

 

Subject Contents

 

1-     Introduction to American Literature

2-     Literature of Revolution: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

3-     American Romanticism

4-     Introduction to the Short Story: Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle

5-     Gothic Short Story : Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher

6-     American Realism:

7-     Local Colour:  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

8-     Genteel Tradition : Daisy Miller

 

Assessment

50% - 50% (Written exams and continuous Assessment)