ENGL 245

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The Short Story

Credit: 3 hours.

Historical and critical study of the short story (American and European) from the early nineteenth century to the present.

Same as CWL 267. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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

Humanities – Lit & Arts

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ENGL 245 class schedule data for spring 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32060	Lecture-Discussion	Q2	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	104 English Building	Hudek, B	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: We will examine how the short story genre creates mood and impact. We will also explore how the short story differs from other literary genres to assess its strengths and weaknesses. To do so, we’ll read a bracing array of stories across a range of experiences, nationalities, outlooks, and time frames. Eudora Welty, James Baldwin, James Joyce, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Toni Cade Bambara, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Toomer, Bobbie Ann Mason, Virgilio Pinera, Rebecca West, Paul Auster, are some of the authors in this course. Students will also learn about regionalism, Modernism, Postmodernism, the Absurd, detective fiction, the global south, plantationocene, ecocriticism, postcolonialism among other themes and ideas. Further, this class will utilize a workshop approach in that we’ll read each short story together in class and instructional content will be delivered in video form outside of class. Close reading assignments, reader response essays, a multimodal component, and short essays will comprise the writing in this course.