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 2024
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32277	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	115 English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: FA24 ENGL 200 - Intro to Lit and Culture - Anthony Pollock - This course is designed to help students develop interpretive skills and a knowledge base that will prepare them for more advanced courses in literary and cultural studies. We will engage with powerful works of literature from a range of different genres; we will practice making persuasive, detailed and evidence-based arguments about the readings; and we will think about interpretation itself as a form of action with ethical and social consequences. Possible authors include Richard Blanco, Ray Bradbury, Julio Cortázar, Edwidge Danticat, James Joyce, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sandra Tsing Loh, Katherine Mansfield, Marianne Moore, Suzan-Lori Parks, Craig Santos Perez, Mary Shelley, Adrienne Su, Natasha Trethewey, Helena María Viramontes, and Alice Walker. Requirements: three essay projects, informal journals, and regular class participation.
32268	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	150 English Building	Perry, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: FA24 ENGL 200 - Introduction to the Study of Literature and Culture - Curtis Perry - This section of this class will try to zero in on what it means to read, carefully and with curiosity, at a time when our own culture discounts focused attention, bombards you with all manner of distraction, and provides information (of varying reliability) all the time and in unprecedented volume. Emphasis will therefore be placed above all on how students can practice curious engagement with primary texts of different varieties, and so the class will emphasize discussion and require fairly regular attendance, and assessment will be based on regular, structured participation rather than on mastery of content. Assigned readings will include selections in a variety of textual genres (including poetry, drama, short stories, and one wonderful novel) and we will include historical differences in genre and mode as one of the things to try, curiously, to explore.
41879	Lecture-Discussion	Q	11:00AM -12:15PM	TR	36 English Building	Oh, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: FA24 ENGL 200 - Intro to Literature and Culture - Rebecca Oh - This course is designed to help students develop key skills in close reading and textual interpretation that will prepare them for further study in English literature. We will hone these skills by paying special attention to genres like speculative fiction, realism, picaresque, and gothic, and by considering them through different aesthetic forms like film, novels, and poetry. Topically our works will often, but not exclusively, focus on the environment and its intersections with gender, race, class, and nationality among other factors. This focus will allow us to think about the relationship between literature and the world: how does literature both reflect on, and intervene in, our understanding of historical processes and contemporary social and material struggles? Finally, we will practice critical writing and develop persuasive, evidence-based arguments about the readings. We may read or watch works by Louise Erdrich, Cormac McCarthy, George Miller, Boon Jong-Ho, Jordan Peele, Lisa Russ Spahr, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Karen Tei Yamashita, Indra Sinha and Arvind Adiga among others.
45880	Lecture-Discussion	S	9:30AM -10:45AM	TR	329 Davenport Hall	Loughran, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: FA24 ENGL 200 - Intro to Literature and Culture - Trish Loughran - This is a course about what it means to read literature and practice literary criticism in the twenty-first century. In this particular section of ENGL 200, we typically work with a wide range of different texts and genres, some of which come to us from the deep past and some of which are very contemporary (with forms usually including poems, photographs, films, perhaps a short videogame, essays, and at least one very weird novel). Along the way, we will focus on the question of how literary critics tend to approach these diverse objects of study—in short, on modes of reading and styles of interpretation, from “formalism” to “historicism” to “cultural theory.” By the end of the course, you should be able to describe these three approaches…and know a bit about how to practice them.