Course Description:
The course offers a critical introduction to various genres of literature (a diverse selection of short stories, poems, plays, novels) as well as an introduction to critical reading methods. Purposes of the course are threefold: 1) to enhance overall appreciation and understanding of major types of literature as well as the nature of literature itself, 2) to develop critical approaches to thinking, reading and writing about literary works, and 3) to acquire an overall understanding of the relationship between literature and other academic subjects as well as literature and everyday life. Discussion of literary texts will be a large portion of this course, to foster the development of critical views of literature.
This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Humanities.
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