ENGL 200

Spring 2019 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 spring 2019
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
60132	Lecture-Discussion	F	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	131 English Building	Soto Crespo, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 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: Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John, Jean Rhys’s A Voyage in the Dark, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, and William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.
34519	Lecture-Discussion	M	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	127 English Building	Cole, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: This course, which the English Department describes as “How To Be an English Major,” begins with the premise that literary texts are—or can be--agents of cultural change. English majors, ideally, are those people best trained to interpret the many relationships between literature and culture, partly because they are invested readers, and partly because they have developed a critical vocabulary for discussing the history, nature, meaning, and value of literary and cultural texts. This semester, we’ll focus on narrative: how stories get told and retold in ways that reinforce or contest given models of citizenship and identity. I’ve chosen works united by a broad theme—the politics of being human. Texts include John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi; Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, or History of a Royal Slave; Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes; Octavia Butler, Kindred; Helena Maria Viramontes Under the Feet of Jesus; Nnedi Okorafor, Binti
39032	Lecture-Discussion	P2	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	104 English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/19-05/01/19 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 Jane Austen, 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.