Monroe
1000 E Henrietta Rd Rochester, NY 14623
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The following is fulfilled by this course:
- Critical Thinking and Reasoning Competency
- Humanities
Monroe has listed this a core course in the following categories:
The core course can be applied to following SUNY Transfer Paths:
ENG 203
American Literature to 1865
A survey of American literature from the Encounter to the Civil War. Readings and discussion focus on writers such as Columbus, Wheatley, Hawthorne, Apess, Emerson, Douglass, Jacobs, Whitman, and Dickinson. Students will reflect critically on literature, evaluate and acknowledge the possibilities and limitations of the authors' worldviews, and construct arguments about the texts using evidence from primary and secondary sources. Three class hours. Prerequisite(s): English 101 with a C or better, placement into English 200, or instructor permission.