- Course Type CLEP
- Subject Composition and Literature
- Level Introductory
- Length 8 Modules
- Effort 6 hours/Module
- Institution Modern States
ABOUT THIS COURSE
It covers all of the substantive material that is usually taught in a survey course of American Literature at the college level. Our goal as creators of this course is to prepare you to pass the College Board’s CLEP examination and obtain college credit for free.
Through the guidance of Dr. Dean Simpson, from Tufts University, this course will review the prose and poetry written in the United States from colonial times to the modern era.
“American Literature” is a completely self-paced course. It has no prerequisites and it is offered entirely for free.
Instructors
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Dana (Dean) Simpson, Ph.D.Professor at Tufts University
Course Overview
American Literature Course Overview - Modern States
| Module | Topic | Video Length | Reading Pages |
| Module 1: About the Test 00:10:52 total video length 0 total reading pages |
1.1 About the Test | 0:10:52 | 11 |
| Module 2: The Colonial and Early National Period (Beginnings – 1830) (15 %) 02:06:26 total video length 23 total reading pages |
2.0 Introduction | 0:01:38 | 2 |
| 2.1 Early European Exploration and Writing | 0:13:01 | 11 | |
| 2.2 The Colonial Period (1620-1776) | 0:01:17 | 12 | |
| 2.2.1 The First Years | 0:13:31 | – | |
| 2.2.2 The Pilgrims | 0:05:53 | – | |
| 2.2.3 The Puritans | 0:23:20 | – | |
| 2.2.4 Preachers | 0:13:28 | – | |
| 2.3 The Early National Period (1750-1820) | 0:00:44 | – | |
| 2.3.1 The Early National Period Part 1 | 0:06:53 | – | |
| 2.3.2 The Early National Period Part 2 | 0:22:41 | – | |
| 2.3.3 The Early National Period Part 3 | 0:24:00 | – | |
| Module 3: The Romantic Period (1830–1870) (25 %) 01:54:34 total video length 0 total reading pages |
3.0 Introduction | 0:00:42 | 10 |
| 3.1 Unique American Literature | 0:00:56 | – | |
| 3.1.1 Background | 0:05:20 | – | |
| 3.1.2 Writers of Prose | 0:14:24 | – | |
| 3.1.3 Writers of Verse | 0:14:25 | – | |
| 3.2 American Romanticism | 0:00:52 | – | |
| 3.2.1 Origins, Explanations and One Great Writer | 0:10:53 | – | |
| 3.2.2 Transcendentalism | 0:20:33 | – | |
| 3.2.3 More on the Fireside Poets | 0:07:06 | – | |
| 3.2.4 More Writers of Prose | 0:15:36 | – | |
| 3.2.5 Even More Writers of Prose | 0:13:24 | – | |
| 3.2.6 More Writers of Verse | 0:10:23 | – | |
| Module 4: The Period of Realism and Naturalism (1870–1910) (20 %) 01:02:45 total video length 23 total reading pages |
4.0 Introduction | 0:00:54 | 13 |
| 4.1 Background | 0:04:31 | – | |
| 4.2 Kirkland, Davis, Alger, Twain and Howells | 0:15:52 | – | |
| 4.3 Bierce, James, Jewett, Chopin and Washington | 0:14:00 | – | |
| 4.4 Chesnutt, Gilman, Garland, Wharton and Du Bois | 0:11:23 | – | |
| 4.5 Robinson, Dreiser, Crane, Dunbar and Cather | 0:16:05 | – | |
| Module 5: The Modernist Period (1910–1945) (25 %) 01:24:20 total video length 19 total reading pages |
5.0 Introduction to The Modernist Period (1910-1945) | 0:00:46 | 19 |
| 5.1 About Modernism | 0:02:27 | – | |
| 5.2 Drama | 0:07:34 | – | |
| 5.3 Prose | 0:00:36 | – | |
| 5.3.1 Stein, Anderson, Porter and Hurston | 0:13:09 | – | |
| 5.3.2 Larsen, Fitzgerald and Faulkner | 0:10:02 | – | |
| 5.3.3 Hemingway, Steinbeck and Wright | 0:10:47 | – | |
| 5.4 Poetry | 0:00:46 | – | |
| 5.4.1 Johnson, Frost, Lowell and Sandburg | 0:08:25 | – | |
| 5.4.2 Stevens, Williams, Pound and H.D. | 0:10:09 | – | |
| 5.4.3 Moore, Eliot, McKay and Millay | 0:08:25 | – | |
| 5.4.4 cummings, Toomer and Crane | 0:05:32 | – | |
| 5.4.5 Brown, Hughes and Cullen | 0:05:42 | – | |
| Module 6: The Contemporary Period (1945–Present) (15 %) 00:36:54 total video length 78 total reading pages |
6.0 Introduction | 0:00:37 | 18 |
| 6.1 Background | 0:01:50 | – | |
| 6.2 Prose | 0:08:18 | – | |
| 6.3 More Prose | 0:09:32 | – | |
| 6.4 Poetry | 0:06:58 | – | |
| 6.5 More Poetry | 0:06:20 | – | |
| 6.6 Drama | 0:03:19 | – | |
| Module 7: Terms, Verse Forms and Literary Devices 00:07:53 total video length 0 total reading pages |
7.1 Terms, Verse Forms and Literary Devices | 0:07:53 | – |
| Module 8: Writing the Essays 00:04:39 total video length 0 total reading pages |
8.1 Writing the Essays | 0:04:39 | – |
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