After the Survey, students will be well equipped to work with American literature in later classes, as they understand the connections between texts, as well as texts and society.

Lecture; final exam.The course is designed as a blended class and will be partially taught online in an asynchronous mode with all materials -- including voice recordings  -- provided on Moodle also in weeks in which the lecture is taught in person. 

As an introductory lecture course, this class provides students with an overview of American literary history and an introduction to the diverse range of literary production in the United States. It will attend to both dominant more marginal(ized) literary voices, ranging from discovery narratives and the early colonial period to the present day. We will critically engage with the notion of the American literary canon and also reflect on a range of approaches and theories that scholars have used in order to analyze and make sense of the texts included in it.

All primary texts and other relevant literature will be made available on Moodle on a weekly basis.

On campus digital multiple choice exam (SPU) of 20 multiple choice questions without materials. Mobile devices (phones, tablets, smart watches, etc.) will be collected, students cannot use any notes or the internet. Students have a maximum of 45 minutes to submit their exam. It will be submitted automatically when exam time expires. The final grade depends on the number of correct answers: 19 to 20 correct = 1/A; 17 to 18 correct = 2/B; 13 to 16 correct = 3/C; 11 to 12 correct = 4/D (Pass Grade); 00 to 10 correct = 5/F (Fail Grade).Registration for a specific exam sitting via ZEUS is compulsory. Students who fail to sign up in the system beforehand cannot participate in a sitting. There will be three sittings of the exam. The first sitting will take place on January 30, 2025. The second sitting will take place on February 27, 2025. Third sitting in March, TBA.  Please check ZEUS and our MOODLE course for rooms and times. 

Only material discussed in class will be part of the exam. 

Exam questions ask students to reproduce information from the lecture and to make connections, contextualise, and critically reflect upon information.