ENGL 200

Fall 2018 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 2018
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
41879	Lecture-Discussion	D	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	104 English Building	Soto Crespo, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: ENGL 200 is designed to help you enjoy reading while imparting skills that will prepare you for 300 and 400 level English courses. It will help you improve your reading practices, provide you with tools for interpretation, and help to facilitate discussion of exciting works of literature. The course selects readings from among the best examples of several literary genres: poetry, drama, short story, novella, novel, and essay. Students should be prepared to attend class regularly, read carefully and consistently, contribute to class discussion, and develop their knowledge and skills. Potential texts for discussion: Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, and William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.
41926	Lecture-Discussion	M	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	104 English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 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. Possible authors include Jane Austen, Richard Blanco, Sadiqa de Meijer, Heid E. Erdrich, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marianne Moore, Suzan-Lori Parks, Craig Santos Perez, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Adrienne Su, Natasha Trethewey, Ocean Vuong, and Walt Whitman. Requirements: three major essay projects, revision workshops, informal journal assignments, and regular class participation.
32268	Lecture-Discussion	S	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	115 English Building	Spires, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 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	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	1057 Lincoln Hall	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/18-12/12/18 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. Possible authors include Jane Austen, Richard Blanco, Sadiqa de Meijer, Heid E. Erdrich, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marianne Moore, Suzan-Lori Parks, Craig Santos Perez, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Adrienne Su, Natasha Trethewey, Ocean Vuong, and Walt Whitman. Requirements: three major essay projects, revision workshops, informal journal assignments, and regular class participation.