THE 6 CREDIT COURSE includes the following texts:
-John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (1630);
- Cotton Mather, "The Wonders of the Invisible World" (1692);
-Mary Rowlandson, "A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson" (First, Second, Third, Twelfth, and Twentieth Remove), (1682) ;
-Declaration of Independence (1776);
- Hector De Crèvecoeur ""What is an American", from "Letters from an American Farmer" (1782;
- Benjamin Franklin, "The Authobiography" (1791-1868) pp. 254-269; 297-308 Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorther Eight Edition;
-Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819);
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837);
-Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", “The Raven”, "The Philosophy of Composition”;
-Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, An American Slave (1845);
-Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Scarlet Letter" (1850);
-Walt Whitman, “Preface to Leaves of Grass” (1855), “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”;
-Herman Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853);
- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I lived and What I lived for", from "Walden" (1854);
-Emily Dickinson, “Success is counted sweetest”, “Wild Nights—Wild Nights!”, "There is a certain Slant of light", "This is my letter to the World", “Because I could not stop for Death”, “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant—”.

Critical Bibliography:
-Norton Anthology of American Literature (Preferibly the 8th Shorter Edition, but any other edition will also do. Copies of this anthology are in the library):
LITERATURE TO 1620: Introduction and Timeline
EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE 1620-1820: Introduction and Timeline
AMERICAN LITERATURE 1820-1865: Introduction and Timeline.