This short article discusses米文学史(American Literary History), a course taught by an English-speaking instructor at Kagoshima Prefectural College in spring 2006. The course\u27s thirty-seven students, for the most part second-year English majors, conducted their own research, made in-class presentations, and developed a course Web log, or blog (www.beitunes.blogspot.com) to share their research and comment on other students\u27 work. In discussing the course, the author explores the questions of how to teach literature to Japanese undergraduates and how specifically to teach in English without overwhelming the students. Based on the instructor\u27s own assessments and the students\u27 written evaluations, the course is deemed to be a significant improvement over the conventional model of lecturing
