Centre for Online Education - Certificate in American Literature

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Certificate in American Literature
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Overview

Gain a deeper understanding of the evolution of American literature and its enduring impact on society and culture

Duration	24 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
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Credential	Certificate

Certificate in American Literature
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Highlights

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Certificate in American Literature
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Course details

Who should do this course?

Students pursuing degrees in English, literature, or related fields who require a comprehensive understanding of American literature as part of their academic curriculum
English teachers, literature instructors, and educators seeking professional development opportunities or resources to enrich their teaching of American literature in high school or college classrooms

What are the course deliverables?

Introduction to American Literature
Colonial and Early American Literature
19th-Century American Literature
Realism and Naturalism
Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance
Contemporary American Literature
Themes and Motifs in American Literature

More about this course

This course offers learners an opportunity to study American literary tradition from the period of the emergence of Puritanism as the hegemonic American ideology to the pre and post civil war literature
This course gives the learners an opportunity to understand today’s global environment through novels, stories plays and poems

Certificate in American Literature
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Swayam
Curriculum

Week-1

History of American Literature Part-I

History of American Literature Part-II

Week-2

History of American Literature Part-III

History of American Literature

Week-3

American Enlightenment

The Quaker Context

Week-4

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Part-I

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Part-II

Week-5

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Part-III

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Part-IV

Week-6

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Part-V

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Part-VI

Week-7

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Part-VII

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn Part-VIII

Week-8

The Scarlet Letter: Historical Context

The Scarlet Letter: As a Historical fiction

Week-9

The Scarlet Letter themes

The custom House in the Scarlet Letter

Week-10

The Scarlet Letter Characters 3A

The Scarlet Letter Characters 3B

Certificate in American Literature
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Swayam
Faculty details

Dr. Mridula Rashmi Kindo

Dr. Mridula Rashmi Kindo is an Associate Professor at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) New Delhi. She holds her graduate degree from Delhi University and her Post Graduate and M. Phil Degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru University. Her PhD is on South African Literature. She has more than twenty years of teaching experience.