A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (2) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (4) 4. Course general Description: This course surveys genres of American literature with respect to themes of colonization, plantation, and natural beauty with different styles and trends that informed their development. Special areas of focus in the course include native American literature, European contact, gender, ideological context, romanticism, etc. Emphasis will be placed throughout the course on notable writers from America like Phillip Freneau, Herman Melville, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Tony Morrison etc.