ENGL 195 - Introduction to Literature3 Credit: (3 lecture, 0 lab, 0 clinical) 3 Contact Hours: [ENGL 100 or ENGL 101 ]
This course introduces students to text-based, reader-based and context-based interpretive strategies for the study of poetry, fiction, and drama. Through lecture, discussion, interpretive and research-based writing and group project work, students learn the characteristics of each genre and the vocabulary of literary interpretation.
OFFERED: spring and summer semesters
Course Goals/ Objectives/ Competencies:
Goal 1: Students will develop the ability to analyze literary texts.
- Students will demonstrate comprehension of literary texts.
- Students will explain generic characteristics of poetry, fiction, and drama.
- Students will comprehend and apply the technical vocabulary of literary interpretation.
- Students will identify and use a variety of interpretive strategies for reading literature, including textbased (formalist, psychoanalytic), reader-based (reader response), and context-based interpretations (feminist, political-economic, cultural, historical).
Goal 2: Students will develop the ability to write academic papers of literary analysis.
- Students will learn techniques of literary research.
- Students will read and analyze secondary literary texts.
- Students will write essays that integrate insights from secondary texts with their own analysis of primary texts.
- Students will use MLA documentation techniques.
Goal 3: Students will make oral presentations that synthesize their understanding of primary and secondary literary texts.
Goal 4: Students will propose theories for literature’s power to express a wide range of human insights.
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