Course details

Name: ENGL - 300

Title: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ENGLISH

Section: 03

Semester: Fall - 2019

Credits: 3

Description:
This course, formerly titled Pursuits of English, is required for English majors and minors, and is an inquiry into what constitutes literary study: its subject matter and its underlying goals and methods. We study literary texts of various genres and formats, as well as literary criticism and theory; examine and expand our ways of reading, interpreting, responding to, and writing about texts; trace the relation of literary criticism to theory; consider the relation of literary study to issues of political power; discuss how and why mainstream critical approaches change over time; and develop independent habits of thought, research, discussion, and analytic writing. By the end of the course, students should be able to understand that a single text can and does have multiple meanings depending on the theoretical lens a reader uses.

This section of Critical Approaches explores the mutually dependent categories of the monstrous and the normal in folk/fairy tales as well as Renaissance and modern drama (Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and Césaire's "A Tempest"). Along with these fictional texts, we will consider historical and cultural materials from the periods in which they were written, and three theoretical lenses: Marxism, feminism/gender studies, and postcolonialism.

Last updated on 2019-03-06 By Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Schedule: Thursday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

Teaching Faculty: Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Is course canceled: No