CDL COURSE ENTRY FORM


Author: Laura Wait/SUNY
Last modified by: Stephanie Thomas/SUNY
Composed: 02/18/2008 10:36 AM
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Modified: 01/06/2016
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Course Number: (prefix) CUL (number) 223454 ESC 2.0 Course number: LITR-3050 LITR-3050Literary Interpretation as a Method of Inquiry

Name: Literary Interpretation as a Method of Inquiry
Datatel Title: (30char) Literary Interpretation Method

Area Coordinator: Susan Oaks Department Code: 10CM Team: Humanities

Liberal Study? YES Level: UPPER Credits: 4 Prerequisite? YES
General Education Course? YES GenEd Approval Term/Year:

GenEd Area 1: 7. HumanitiesFully or Partially: f
GenEd Area 2: Fully or Partially:



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Course will be offered (for online course descriptions, proposed offerings for by term views and web views)
Spring 1, Fall 1		Course will be offered (for final term listings, online registration, online bookordering, web views)
Spring 1, Fall 1
First Term Offered: 2008FA (Required Format: YearTerm - i.e., 2005SP)
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Description: Through analytical reading and writing activities, students will deepen their skills in interpretation. Students will create original interpretations of U.S. and international literary works by identifying, analyzing, and evaluating the various lenses through which they, and selected literary and cultural theorists and critics, see the literary works; and by producing various kinds of writing to discover and communicate their own interpretations.

Students will read U.S. and world literature - novels, short stories, and a play - that reflect the complexities of the literal and figurative borderlands where disparate groups and cultures meet and interact, both within and across national boundaries. Through examining and interpreting the complexities and the richness of these borderlands, students will learn more about the places they occupy in this complex world, and about their interconnectedness with others’ realities. Students will also read theoretical and applied writings about interpretation from a variety of disciplines. These writings will include investigations of traditional and contemporary literary criticism theories.

Students will engage in the creation of new learning, and demonstrate their learning, through discussion responses to tutor-generated thinking prompts and to other students’ ideas, and through a combination of formal, informal, and creative writing products. Student writing will occur in discussions, a learning journal, essays, and informal and/or “visual” writing such as annotated lists and charts.

Ability to read, write, and think at the advanced level. Some previous study of literature is helpful, but is not required.

This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Humanities.

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Major Course Area
Communications Humanities and Cultural Studies		Minor Course Area
Literature		SLN Disciplines
English & Literature
Additional Course Requirements
 Undergrad Certificate Association:


2


Meets General Education Requirement

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Archive Course:

genedcode for dpplanner: 7^f~8

genedfull area for dpplanner: Humanities