Students will be introduced to works which represent the diverse literature emerging from America up until 1900. Works may be selected from authors such as Anne Bradstreet, James Fenimore Cooper, Kate Chopin, Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Jacobs, Thomas Jefferson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Rowlandson, Nat Turner, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. AML2010 is a writing credit course. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet the requirements of the Gordon Rule for writing. AML2010 meets the International/ Intercultural competency requirement.

Students will be introduced to works which represent the diverse literature emerging from America since 1900. Texts may be selected from major authors such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Frost, Hughes, Millay, Plath, Ellison, Baldwin, Oates, Angelou, and Roth. Upon successful completion of the course students will understand the significant concepts, contexts, movements, figures, and works of American literature in the 20th and 21st century. AML2020 is a writing credit course. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet the requirements of the Gordon Rule for writing. AML2020 meets the International/ Intercultural competency requirement.

Students will be introduced to works that represent diverse African American literature since 1746. Texts may be selected from major authors such as Angelou, Douglass, Hughes, Hurston, King, and Truth. Upon successful completion of the course, students will understand the significant concepts, contexts, movements, figures, and works of African American literature since 1746. AML2600 is a writing credit course. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet the requirements of the Gordon Rule for writing. AML2600 meets the International/Intercultural competency requirement.

A broad survey of US Hispanic/Latino Literature covering works from the New World Encounter to present era. Students will analyze texts that may be selected from authors such as Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Hernando De Soto, Jose Marti, William Carlos Williams, Santiago Baca, Tato Laviera, Sandra Cisneros, Rudolfo Anaya, Gloria Anzaldua, Reinaldo Arenas, Richard Blanco, Jennine Capo Crucet, Elizabeth Acevedo, among others. AML2631 is a writing credit course. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet the requirements of the Gordon Rule for writing. AML2631 meets the International/Intercultural competency requirement.