Course details

Name: ENGL - 110

Title: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: THE ANALYTIC ESSAY

Section: 03

Semester: Fall - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
Organized around individual instructors’ chosen topic or theme, this course focuses on the development of students’ skills in writing a thesis-driven analytic essay. We work with literary and cultural texts to strengthen reading and analytic abilities, using those skills to construct sophisticated and informed arguments. Students will write 5000-6000 words of formal prose spaced throughout the semester, and regularly revise their essays with feedback from peers and the instructor. ENGL 110 meets the GenEd C2 Literature Requirement, and is appropriate for students in any major (or even undeclared) who want to express themselves accurately and persuasively when responding to literary and other texts: what to look for, how many ways there are to "get it right."

This section of 110 focuses on the analysis of poetry—specifically, poetry that studies how personal and political struggle drives transformation. All literary writing joins some struggle by enacting some change in the writer, some imagined change in the reader, and some change in our sense of what writing can do. In this course, we will be thinking about those literary engagements through poems that are very specifically about transformation born of crisis. Our poems will range across history and genre, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Lucretius’s The Nature of Things in the ancient period, through Shakespeare, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Emily Dickinson, to twentieth-century poets like Kamau Brathwaite and twenty-first century poets like Ross Gay, Natalie Diaz, Jos Charles, and Sherwin Bitsui.

Last updated on 2023-03-15 By Rzepka Adam (rzepkaa)

Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 11:15 am To 12:30 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Introduction to Literature (110-114)

Teaching Faculty: Rzepka Adam (rzepkaa)

Is course canceled: No