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ELIT 46CH Major British Writers
(Victorian and Modern) - HONORS
4 Units
ELIT 48BH Major American Writers 4 Units (The Advent of Realism, 1865-1914) - HONORS
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
(Not open to students with credit in ELIT 48B.)
(Admission into this course requires consent of the Honors Program Coordinator.) Prerequisite: Eligibility for college-level composition (EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate methods.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course explores the reading and critical analysis of representative works by major writers such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Chesnutt, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Black Elk, and Robert Frost. Because this is an honors program course, students will be expected to complete extra assignments to gain deeper insight in Literature.
ELIT 48C Major American Writers 4 Units (The Modern Age, 1914-the Present)
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
(Not open to students with credit in ELIT 48CH.)
Prerequisite: Eligibility for college-level composition (EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate methods.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course explores the reading and critical analysis of representative works by major writers of the modern/postmodern periods such as Faulkner, Hemingway, Hurston, Morrison, Fitzgerald, Hughes, Wright, Ellison, Williams, Cisneros, Stevens, Sexton, Eliot, Vonnegut, Pynchon, O’Connor, Plath, Carver, Wilson, and O’Neill.
ELIT 48CH Major American Writers 4 Units (The Modern Age, 1914-the Present) - HONORS
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
(Not open to students with credit in ELIT 48C.)
(Admission into this course requires consent of the Honors Program Coordinator.) Prerequisite: Eligibility for college-level composition (EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate methods.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course explores the reading and critical analysis of representative works by major writers of the modern and postmodern periods, such as Faulkner, Hemingway, Hurston, Morrison, Fitzgerald, Hughes, Wright, Ellison, Williams, Cisneros, Stevens, Sexton, Eliot, Vonnegut, Pynchon, O’Connor, Plath, Carver, Wilson, and O’Neill. Because this is an honors program course, students will be expected to complete extra assignments to gain deeper insight into English literature.
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(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
(Not open to students with credit in ELIT 46C.)
(Admission into this course requires consent of the Honors Program Coordinator.) Prerequisite: Eligibility for college-level composition (EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate methods.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course will examine readings and critical responses to representative works by major writers such as the Brontes, Tennyson, Barrett Browning, Browning, Dickens, Arnold, Hopkins, Wilde, Lawrence, Hardy, Yeats, Conrad, Joyce, Eliot, Beckett, Woolf, and Auden. Students will be expected to complete extra assignments to gain a deeper insight into English Literature.
ELIT 47A World Literature: Antiquity to the 1500s
4 Units
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
The course engages students in a comparative study of selected works, in translation and English, of literature from around the world including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and other areas, from antiquity to the middle of the sixteenth century.
ELIT 47B World Literature: Africa and Latin America 4 Units
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
A comparative literature survey, “World Literature: Africa and Latin America” studies the works of literature of both Africa and Latin America from colonial times up to the present, in English and translation. The diversity of literature produced in both Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America (including Brazil and the Caribbean), and various contemporary diasporas around the globe will be covered. The historically asynchronous approach investigates shared literary movements across national, linguistic, religious, and other social strata.
ELIT 48A Major American Writers
(Colonial to Romantic, 1620-1865)
4 Units
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
(Not open to students with credit in ELIT 48AH.)
Prerequisite: Eligibility for college-level composition (EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate methods.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course explores the reading and critical analysis of representative works by diverse writers such as William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elias Boudinot, Chief Seattle, Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau.
ELIT 48AH Major American Writers 4 Units (Colonial to Romantic, 1620-1865) - HONORS
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
(Not open to students with credit in ELIT 48A.)
(Admission into this course requires consent of the Honors Program Coordinator.) Prerequisite: Eligibility for college-level composition (EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate methods.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course explores the reading and critical analysis of representative works by diverse writers such as William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elias Boudinot, Chief Seattle, Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, and Henry David Thoreau. Because this is an honors program course, students will be expected to complete extra assignments to gain deeper insight in literature.
ELIT 78
ELIT 78X
ELIT 78Y
ELIT 78Z
Special Topics in Literature
1 Unit 2 Units 3 Units 4 Units
All courses are for unit credit and apply to a De Anza associate degree unless otherwise noted.
   ELIT 48B
Major American Writers
4 Units
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and division dean.
One hour lecture for each unit of credit (12 hours total for each unit of credit per quarter).
Pass-No Pass (P-NP) course.
This course involves an intensive study and analysis of a special topic in literature.
English/Writing
Some courses in the English Department are designed for students with a recommended level of skills and knowledge. De Anza uses a variety of assessment methods deanza.edu/ assessment/steps – including placement tests, high school transcripts and high school GPA – to place students in the best course sequence for them to succeed. Students who have not been assessed or who are unsure of their placement should contact the Assessment Center deanza.edu/assessment.
EWRT 1A Composition and Reading 5 Units
(See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
(Not open to students with credit in EWRT 1AH.)
Prerequisite: Eligibility for college-level composition (EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT)) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate methods.
Five hours lecture (60 hours total per quarter).
Introduction to university level reading and writing, with an emphasis on analysis. Close examination of a variety of texts (personal, popular, literary, professional, academic) from culturally diverse traditions. Practice in common rhetorical strategies used in academic writing. Composition of clear, well-organized, and well-developed essays, with varying purposes and differing audiences, from personal to academic.
(The Advent of Realism, 1865-1914)
 (See general education pages for the requirements this course meets.)
(Not open to students with credit in ELIT 48BH.)
Prerequisite: Eligibility for college-level composition (EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate methods.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course explores the reading and critical analysis of representative works by major writers such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Chesnutt, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Black Elk, and Robert Frost.
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