Course details

Name: ENGL - 300

Title: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ENGLISH

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2020

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 traditional and modern 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 2019-10-16 By Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Schedule: Monday,Wednesday From 11:30 am To 12:45 pm

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Teaching Faculty: Nielsen Wendy (nielsenw)

Is course canceled: No