Course details

Name: ENGL - 300

Title: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ENGLISH

Section: 04

Semester: Fall - 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.

At the time of this posting, the reading list has not been confirmed - so feel free to email your professor (over the summer, for example, or late in the spring semester) if you'd like to know more about the required books.

Schedule: Friday From 2:30 pm To 5:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

Teaching Faculty: Lorenz Johnny (lorenzj)

Is course canceled: No