"In a day not far from now, we will be able to break down the barriers of time and space and connect our students on internships or between semesters to the university and to each other and, in that way, create outstanding, interactive educational experiences for them."
President Kim B. Clark
President Kim B. Clark
ENG 251 Fundamentals of Literary Interpretations Online
Credits: 3
Estimated Enrollment per Offering: 45 Students
Outcomes
Developing strategies that help you skillfully analyze and more deeply enjoy literature-stories, poems, and plays. These strategies include:
- Learning to read a text closely
- Understanding the language that describes literature
- Learning about critical theories that inform the ways experienced readers respond to literature
- Arriving at and defending valid interpretations of works you read
- Learning how to do literary research
- Distinguishing between commercial and literary function
- Enjoying literature for its own sake
Description
Introduces literary genre: fiction, poetry, drama, and literary theory.
(Required for English majors and minors.)
Topics: Aesthetics; literary theories including new criticism, reader response, psychoanalytic criticism, cultural studies, and feminist criticism; genres and forms; and terminology describing literature.
Prerequisites
Completion of FD English 101 or 101C. English and Humanities majors and minors.
Books
- Benitez, Sandra. A Place Where the Sea Remembers. New York: Scribner, 1994.
- Bressler, Charles E. Literary Crticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. 4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007.
- Gibaldi, Joseph. The MLA Handbook. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2003.
- Kennedy, X.J. and Dana Gioia. Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2008.
Course Tools
TBD