Course details

Name: ENGL - 300

Title: CRITICAL APPROACHES TO ENGLISH

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2021

Credits: 3

Description:
Modality: SYNCHRONOUS ONLINE.

This course is required for English majors and minors.

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.

Texts for my version of "Critical Approaches" might include the following: THE ANTHOLOGY OF RAP, Ovid's METAMORPHOSES, Puig's KISS OF THE SPIDERWOMAN, and Octavia Butler's DAWN.

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

Graduation requirements:

Teaching Faculty: Lorenz Johnny (lorenzj)

Is course canceled: No