Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Japanese
Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School Liberal Arts Education Program
Lecture Code 54015002 Subject Classification Area Courses
Subject Name 英語圏の文学と社会[旧パッケージ]
Subject Name
(Katakana)
エイゴケンノブンガクトシャカイ
Subject Name in
English
Literature and Society of the English-speaking Countries
Instructor KIDO MITSUYO
Instructor
(Katakana)
キド ミツヨ
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 1st-Year,  First Semester,  2Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (2T) Mon5-8:IAS K101
Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
(More Details)
 
Lecture, PowerPoint projection on the screen 
Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week   Language of Instruction J : Japanese
Course Level 1 : Undergraduate Introductory
Course Area(Area) 23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area(Discipline) 05 : Literature
Eligible Students
Keywords Literature and society in the United States, American culture, American literature 
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status within
Liberal Arts Education
Area Courses(Courses in Arts and Humanities/Social Sciences) Category:Literature / Linguistics
*Students who got admitted in 2018 or after can take this course as an “Area Course”. For this group of students, credits from this course will be regarded as credits from an “Area Course”.
If students who got admitted in 2017 or before take this course, it is regarded as a “Package-Based Subject”. The latter group of students cannot take this course as an “Area Course”. 
Expected Outcome 
Class Objectives
/Class Outline
The objectives of this course is to show how American literature can be studied as a means to gain insight into a number of important aspects of American society from the Puritan era through modern times. The primary focus will be on the ways in which these texts (short stories, novels, political documents, poems, or films) both reflect and produce discourses related to race, class, gender in each era. Students will also be expected to learn major works by American authors in each period and understand the evolution of American culture and society through these texts. 
Class Schedule lesson1 Introduction
lesson2 Environmental literature in the US
lesson3 Literature of the American frontier
lesson4 American Gothic
lesson5 Fantasy and science fiction in the US
lesson6 Regional literature and literary realism
lesson7 Literature of the American Civil War
lesson8 Heroins in American literature
lesson9 "The Lost Generation" and literary modernism
lesson10 American Literature in the 1930s
lesson11 Counter-culture and the "Beat Generation"
lesson12 Multi-ethnic American literature I
lesson13 Multi-ethnic American literature II
lesson14 Postmodern fiction
lesson15 review

There will be a short quiz at the end of the last class. Students are also required to submit a term paper on one of the works picked up in the course. 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
Handouts are distributed in each class. 
PC or AV used in
Class,etc.
 
(More Details) Handouts.  Projections of films and PowerPoint slides on the screen 
Learning techniques to be incorporated  
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review
Lessons 1-15 Sufficient preparations and reviews are required. 
Requirements  
Grading Method Students are evaluated based on their class attendance, the result of a short quiz as well as a term paper assigned at the end of the term. 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
Message  
Other   
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. 
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