ENGL 200

Fall 2025 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

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 2025
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
32277	Lecture-Discussion	F	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	115 English Building	Morris, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: FA25 ENGL 200 - Intro to Lit and Culture - David Morris - English is a wide-ranging field that goes beyond literature and writing, incorporating teaching, other media, ideas from other disciplines, and surprisingly various professional possibilities. Wildly different interests attract people to study English. How can we introduce this rich field in one semester? We’ll start with the basics of formal literary analysis, including close reading; forms, modes, and genres; and interpretation of texts within contexts. Through those methods, the course will explore a set of interrelated questions: what different ways can people read texts? What makes a good interpretation? How do we make our interpretations with evidence? What are the relations among texts, other texts, contexts, and readers? Through engagement with novels, short stories, plays, poems, and nonfiction, we’ll strengthen our skill with textual analysis and explore some of its possibilities. Along the way, we’ll think about the things that draw us to English, and what each of us can do in and with it. Course work will include readings, engaged participation, two quizzes, two exams, two analytical essays, and one short reflective essay.
32268	Lecture-Discussion	P	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	150 English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: FA25 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.
41879	Lecture-Discussion	Q	12:30PM -1:45PM	TR	219 David Kinley Hall	Soto Crespo, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: FA25 ENGL 200 - Intro to Lit and Culture - Ramon Soto Crespo - 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, novel, and essay. This course studies twentieth-century literature of the Americas, focusing first on the short story genre. We’ll read stories written in the U.S. Mainland by well-established American writers and short stories written by Latino authors to see one recent development in this genre. The course will discuss the latest surge in short story writing, and then it will examine the canonical works that precede it. After discussing the short story, our focus shifts to the novel. We will explore two types of novels: the bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) and the modernist novel (stream of consciousness). From the novel, our discussion turns to contemporary drama. We’ll read and analyze five plays that dramatize contemporary themes of sex, death, sociability, and family dynamics. The course aims to improve your reading skills, requiring students to be prepared and attend class regularly on TR. Read carefully, consistently, and contribute to class discussion.
45880	Lecture-Discussion	S	2:00PM -3:15PM	TR	219 David Kinley Hall	Soto Crespo, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/25-12/10/25 Degree Notes: Humanities - Lit & Arts course. Section Info: FA25 ENGL 200 - Intro to Lit and Culture - Ramon Soto Crespo - 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, novel, and essay. This course studies twentieth-century literature of the Americas, focusing first on the short story genre. We’ll read stories written in the U.S. Mainland by well-established American writers and short stories written by Latino authors to see one recent development in this genre. The course will discuss the latest surge in short story writing, and then it will examine the canonical works that precede it. After discussing the short story, our focus shifts to the novel. We will explore two types of novels: the bildungsroman (coming-of-age novel) and the modernist novel (stream of consciousness). From the novel, our discussion turns to contemporary drama. We’ll read and analyze five plays that dramatize contemporary themes of sex, death, sociability, and family dynamics. The course aims to improve your reading skills, requiring students to be prepared and attend class regularly on TR. Read carefully, consistently, and contribute to class discussion.