ENGL 200

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Introduction to the Study of Literature and Culture

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduction to the study of literature in the twenty-first century. This course will expand your sense of what literature is and where it happens, including discussion of old and new literary forms (from novels, poems, and plays to comic books, video games, and films). Along the way, students will explore some of the literary and cultural opportunities (such as author readings, scholarly talks, and performances) available to them on a large public university campus, with two goals in mind: to develop your critical interpretive skills and to acquaint you with the discipline of literary studies as it is being practiced all around us today, both inside and outside the conventional classroom.

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 2019
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
41926	Lecture-Discussion	D	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 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 Richard Blanco, Sadiqa de Meijer, Heid E. Erdrich, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marianne Moore, Suzan-Lori Parks, Craig Santos Perez, Claudia Rankine, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Adrienne Su, Natasha Trethewey, and Ocean Vuong. Requirements: three major essay projects, revision workshops, informal journal assignments, and regular class participation.
41879	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	English Building	Dean, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: Intro to Lit and Culture Considers a range of literary genres (short story, novella, plays, poetry, memoir), plus film and spoken word poetry, to explore different ways of telling stories, conveying emotion, and exploiting the resources of genre for making meaning out of human experience.
32268	Lecture-Discussion	S	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	Armory	Basu, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course.
45880	Lecture-Discussion	T	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/19-12/11/19 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 Richard Blanco, Sadiqa de Meijer, Heid E. Erdrich, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Yusef Komunyakaa, Marianne Moore, Suzan-Lori Parks, Craig Santos Perez, Claudia Rankine, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, Adrienne Su, Natasha Trethewey, and Ocean Vuong. Requirements: three major essay projects, revision workshops, informal journal assignments, and regular class participation.