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Introduction to Literature |
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INTRO TO LIT |
| CLASS CODE: |
ENG 250 |
CREDITS:
3
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| DIVISION: |
LANGUAGE & LETTERS |
| DEPARTMENT: |
ENGLISH |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: |
This course fulfills a General Education - Letters requirement. |
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| DESCRIPTION: |
Introduces literary genre: short story, novel, poetry, and drama. Emphasizes skilled reading and analysis of significant examples. (Not recommended for English majors.) |
| TAUGHT: |
Winter, Summer, and Fall |
| CONTENT AND TOPICS: |
Elements of fiction, poetry, drama; distinctions among escape and interpretive literature; impact of literature on self awareness and a better understanding of others. |
| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: |
- Appreciate literary texts as sources of intellectual, emotional, and aesthetic experiences.
- Connect literature to other disciplines and to life.
- Understand how culture, ethnicity, and values influence literature.
- Recognize, question, and interpret ideas from diverse perspectives.
- Read representative examples of fiction, poetry, and drama.
- Understand the conventions of literature.
- Analyze the relationship between formal structure and theme.
- Use textual evidence to support literary interpretations.
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| REQUIREMENTS: |
10-15 pages of critical writing in response to class readings.
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| OTHER: |
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| EFFECTIVE DATE: |
August 2083 |
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