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Introduction to Literature |
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INTRO TO LIT |
| CLASS CODE: |
ENG 250H |
CREDITS:
3
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FEE: $5.00
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| DIVISION: |
GENERAL STUDIES |
| DEPARTMENT: |
HONORS PROGRAM |
| GENERAL EDUCATION: |
This course fulfills a General Education - Letters requirement. |
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| DESCRIPTION: |
Introduces literary genre: short story, novel, poetry, and drama. Emphasizes skilled reading and analysis of significant examples. (Intended for Honors Program students. Not recommended for English majors.) |
| TAUGHT: |
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| CONTENT AND TOPICS: |
Elements of fiction, poetry, drama; distinctions among escape and interpretive fiction; impact of literature on self awareness and a better understanding of others. |
| GOALS AND OBJECTIVES: |
- Appreciating literature's diversity by reading traditional and evolving canons.
- Reading within historic, thematic, cultural, or generic contexts.
- Understanding the common forms of literature: short stories, poems, plays, essays, and novels.
- Learning terms describing literature.
- Examining ways meaning emerges from a literary work.
- Defending with textual evidence valid interpretations of literary works.
- Expressing literary interpretations in focused and coherent writing.
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| REQUIREMENTS: |
Students shall write a minimum of 2,500 words of edited prose formally or informally responding to the literature they have read. This may be in the form of journal responses. |
| PREREQUISITES: |
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| OTHER: |
Honors Program students only. |
| EFFECTIVE DATE: |
August 1983 |
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