EL3203 – 國立中央大學英美語文學系 Department of English at NCU

開課單位	英美語文學系		課　號	EL3203
授課教師	英文系教師		學分數	3
課程名稱(中文)	美國研究I
課程名稱(英文)	American Studies I
上課時間
課程基本資料	□必修　　■選修	□全學年　　■半學年
特殊條件	英語授課 ■是(□全英語 ■部份英語) □否	接受社會人士修課 □是 ■否		接受校際學生修課 □是 ■否
分發條件 (授課對象限制條件說明、先修及擋修課程、人數限制…等)	英文系二年級優先，其他年級次之。人數限制50人
密碼卡	□不使用 ■部份使用(條件外加選用) □全部使用(加、退選皆須使用)
辦公時間
課程目標： This two-semester course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of American studies. The course is organized historically, divided in the 1910s, with the US’s entry into the Great War. Students are advised to take both courses for a fuller knowledge of the field. American Studies I familiarizes students with the history and cultures of the US through the early twentieth century. The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries witnessed the settlement of formal British colonies in North America, the development of Puritan religious thought, imperialistic violence in encounters with native peoples, the establishment of a slave-based agricultural economy, the propagation of liberal thought on political economy, the revolution, and the establishment of the new republic and drafting of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The nineteenth century saw the abolition movement, civil war, and end of legal slavery, the institution of formal and informal public segregation, the building up of “reservations” for native Americans, the beginning of the women’s movement, industrialization and unprecedented immigration rates, and the creation of a large class gap. This period culminates with the emergence of the US as a major player on the world stage with imperialistic projects in Asia and Latin America, and the beginnings of a mass culture based on new productive technologies. The first semester course will not cover all three centuries in detail, but will focus in on one or two periods before 1914 in some depth, drawing connections to previous and ensuing historical periods. Students will learn about the role of cultural texts both in supplying material for national myth building and in exploring and questioning national narratives. Students also learn how to analyze both literary and visual texts. They will also gain an understanding of the historical formation of current social issues concerning race, labor, class, gender, and sexuality.
授課內容： American Studies I begins with the keyword essay on “America” by literary studies scholar Kirsten Silva Gruesz, which traces the history of its questionable usage as the name of a nation. She also provides an account of the history of American studies, noting that its “foundational texts located the distinctive qualities of Americans variously in the history of Westward movement, in philosophical and economic individualism, or in a hopeful orientation toward the future (the ‘American Dream’).” Contemporary “American studies scholars try to show how such mythic definitions arise in response to specific needs and conditions and then change over time and how the actual history of US actions and policies has often diverged from these expectations” (America 16). Class activities consist of quizzes, lectures, and group discussions on assigned topics. In group activities, our focus will be the close reading and interpretation of cultural texts with a view to understanding the socioeconomic conflicts and contradictions these texts reflect and challenge or strive to symbolically resolve. Students will be required to perform close readings, analyze them, and understand them in historical context. To this end, alongside the cultural texts we will read essays from the NYU press edited volume Keywords in American Cultural Studies, which has entries on terms central to and definitive of the field. W1 Introduction: America and Modernity Keywords: “America” (in packet); “Modern” (online) https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/modern/ W2 Cultures of Settler Colonialism Edwards, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (Package 1, Vol. A 394-406) Hawthorne, “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” (Package 1, Vol. B 330-337) Reference: Emerson, excerpts from “Nature” and “Self-Reliance” (Package 1, Vol. B) Keywords: “Literature” (in packet) W3 The Maritime Imagination and Individualism Melville, excerpts from Moby-Dick (Package 1, Vol. B, 1279-1321): Chapter I “Loomings” 1279; Chapter III “The Spouter-Inn” 1283; Chapter XXVIII “Ahab” 1293; Chapter XXXVI “The Quarter-Deck” 1296; Chapter XLI “Moby Dick” 1301; Chapter XLII “The Whiteness of the Whale” 1308; Chapter CXXXV. “The Chase—Third Day” 1314; Epilogue 1321 Keywords: “America,” “Literature,” and “Modern” (con’t) W4 Slavery and Abolition I Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (online) Chapters I, V, VI, VII, IX, X https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11030/11030-h/11030-h.htm Keywords: “Nation,” “Slavery” (in packet) W5 Slavery and Abolition II Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl XII, XIII, XXI, XXIV, XXIX, XLI https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11030/11030-h/11030-h.htm Keywords: “Freedom,” “Abolition” (in packet) W6 Democracy and National Cultures Whitman, from “Song of Myself” (beg. p. 23) poems 1-6, 11, 13, 21, 31, 51, 52, and “Democratic Vistas” (85-88) Keyword: “Democracy” (online) https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/democracy/ W7 Whiteness and the Anthropological Gaze James, “Daisy Miller” (410-449) Keyword: “Whiteness” (online) https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/whiteness/ Reference: Staples, “How Italians Became White” (online) https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/12/opinion/columbus-day-italian-american-racism.html W8 Marriage in Liberal Democracy Chopin, “The Story of an Hour” (542-544); Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper” and “Why I Wrote ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” (844-856) Keywords: “Domestic,” “Marriage” (online) https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/domestic/ https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/marriage/ W9 The Frontier and Native American Cultural Survival Black Elk, from Black Elk Speaks (682-687) Keywords: “Indian,” “West” (online) https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/indian/ https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/west/ W10 Reconstruction and Racialization Du Bois, from The Souls of Black Folk (918-936) Keyword: “Racialization” (in packet) W11 Capitalism, the Class Gap, and Early Cinema Screenings, “The Great Train Robbery” (1903) and “The Tramp” (1915) King, Rob, excerpts from The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture W12 Industrialization and Immigration Sinclair, from The Jungle Keywords: “Class” (in packet), “Immigration” (online) https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/immigration/ W13 Racialization and Immigration Sui Sin Far, “Mrs. Spring Fragrance” and intro (907-917) Keyword: “Orientalism” (online) https://keywords.nyupress.org/american-cultural-studies/essay/orientalism/ W14 Screening, Birth of a Nation (1915) Gunning, Tom. “Making Sense of Film” http://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/film/film.pdf W15 Review W16 Final Exam W17 Arranged Individual Meetings W18 Arranged Individual Meetings
教科書/參考書： Textbooks: 1. Course Reader (excerpted from Norton Anthology of American Literature) 2. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (online) 3. Selected keyword essays from Keywords for American Cultural Studies —Online: “Democracy,” “Domestic,” “Immigration,” “Indian,” “Marriage,” “Modern,” “Orientalism,” “West,” “Whiteness” —In course packet: “Abolition,” “America,” “Class,” “Freedom,” “Literature,” “Nation,” “Slavery,” “Racialization” Note: All the literature readings are from Norton except Incidents. Readings marked “Package 1” are from Package 1, Vols. A and b; unmarked readings are from Package 2, Vol C. References: Blum, Hester, The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Burgett, Bruce and Glenn Hendler. Keywords for American Cultural Studies. New York: New York University Press, 2007. Gunning, Tom. “Making Sense of Film” (from the Making Sense of Evidence series on History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web, located at http://historymatters.gmu.edu) Harris, Cheryl. “Whiteness as Property.” Harvard Law Review, 1993, Vol. 106, No. 8, pp. 1707-1791. Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1861. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11030/11030-h/11030-h.htm Kaplan, Amy. The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2002. King, Rob. The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture, 2008. Levine, Robert S, and Sandra M Gustafson, eds. Norton Anthology of American Literature, 9th edition, Package 1. Levine, Robert S, Michael A. Elliott, Sandra M Gustafson, Amy Hungerford, Mary Loeffelholz, eds. Norton Anthology of American Literature, 9th edition, Package 2. Miller, Perry. Errand into the Wilderness. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1956. Pease, Donald and Amy Kaplan, eds. Cultures of U. S. Imperialism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1993. Roediger, David. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class, 1991. Smith, Henry Nash. Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
授課方式：　■講授　■研討（分組討論）　□實習/實驗　□個別指導　□其他
評量配分比重： Requirements: Class participation 20%. Attendance 20%. Quizzes 30%. Final exam 30%. There will be weekly reading assignments, weekly quizzes on the reading assignments, and a final exam. Students are expected to come to class regularly on time and having completed the assigned readings. More than two absences can put you at risk of a lower grade or failing the class, so attendance isn’t only measured by the percentage stipulated above. Quizzes will be given at the beginning of class on the reading assignment for that day.
課程所屬學制：　■學士班　　□碩士班　　□博士班　　□碩博同修
課程領域：□語言訓練 □語言學與英語教學 ■文學 ■文化研究
跨系課程領域：(不需填寫)

本課程培養學生具備核心能力之強度指數：

強度指數系所核心能力	1 非常低	2 低	3 普通	4 高	5 非常高	評量方式
英文閱讀解析與寫作論述 English critical reading and analytical writing					✔	✔紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) ✔作業練習(Assignments) □口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) □專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) □出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
英語溝通與文化跨越 English oral communication and cultural crossing				✔		□紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) □作業練習(Assignments) □口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) □專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ✔出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
審美欣賞與多元創意 aesthetic appreciation and creative diversity				✔		□紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) ✔作業練習(Assignments) □口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) □專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) □出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
人文思維與社會關懷 humanities visions and social intervention					✔	✔紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) ✔作業練習(Assignments) □口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) □專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) □出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)
組織能力與人際合作 organizational ability and team work				✔		□紙筆測驗/會考(Test/Exam) □作業練習(Assignments) □口頭報告/口試(Presentation/Oral Exam) □專題研究報告(書面)(Research Report(printed on paper)) □實作/實驗(Practices/Experiments) ✔出席/課堂表現(Attendance/Performance) □學習檔案評量(Portfolios Assessment) □自我評量/同儕互評(Self Assessment/ Peer Assessment) □作品/創作展演(Products/Creative Performance) □其他(Others) □無(No assessment)