ENGL 200

Fall 2017 All Classes

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Intro to the Study of Lit

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to the study of literature, with an emphasis on interpretive theories and methods as well as the formal distinctions between the major literary genres. For majors only.

Enrollment in all sections of ENGL 200 is open only to English and Teaching of English Majors.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 200 class schedule data for fall 2017
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
41879	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	131 English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: This course is designed to help students develop analytical skills that will be crucial to their success in 300- and 400-level courses in literary and cultural studies. We will spend several weeks on each of the three primary literary genres taught in the English Department—poetry, prose fiction, and drama—paying close attention both to the defining characteristics that distinguish the genres from one another and to the structural elements they have in common. Throughout the semester, we will build up a critical vocabulary for articulating persuasive, detailed, and evidence-based arguments about literary texts, and we will think about interpretation itself as a form of action with political, ethical, and social-historical implications. Requirements: regular attendance and participation, informal responses, and three essays.
41926	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	131 English Building	Parker, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: This course is your path to future courses in English literary studies—and to reading for the rest of your life. We will immerse ourselves in the specific strategies and pleasures of reading, interpreting, and discussing literature—poetry, drama, fiction, and film—and of writing intellectually rigorous and ambitious interpretive essays about what we read. Students should be prepared to attend class regularly, read regularly, join class discussion, and build on and expand beyond what they already know.
32268	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	131 English Building	Spires, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: This course has been aptly called, “How to Be an English Major.” It’s your introduction to literary studies—what we do, how we do it, and why—and will help you develop the core reading habits and analytical skills needed for upper-level coursework. We’ll think about how literary texts produce meaning, how that meaning production affects the world literature inhabits, and how definitions and ideas about literature’s “work” have changed over time. We will read a variety of texts—prose fiction, poetry, drama, comics, film, and some that defy easy categorization—from a variety of literary traditions and eras. In each instance, we’ll think about genre and form as historically contingent and fluid categories shaping and shaped by our experiences with literature. Our goal will be to cultivate a vocabulary, theoretical toolbox, and set of reading and writing practices for constructing persuasive, evidence-based arguments about and through literature. Writers up for consideration: Phillis Wheatley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Octavia Butler, Kate Chopin, August Wilson, James Baldwin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and others.
45880	Lecture-Discussion	T	3:30PM -4:45PM	TR	150 English Building	Jones, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: What can literature tell us about history, power, the environment, and relationships? How have those forces shaped the production, circulation, and reception of literature? How has the practice of reading changed over time? And how do we even begin to ask interesting questions about the literature we read? This course, which might be called “How to be an English Major,” invites you to engage these questions by joining a variety of debates in literary studies. By reading literary texts alongside works of critical theory and literary criticism, you will begin to understand how critics make meaning out of literature. And by completing a variety of formal and informal writing assignments, you will be empowered to make meaning out of literature for yourself, and to appreciate the keen challenges and even keener pleasures of literary studies. Authors whose works we engage in class may include Junot Diaz, Karen Yamashita, Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Wallace Stevens, and others.