Course details

Name: ENGL - 110

Title: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: THE ANALYTIC ESSAY

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
This course satisfies the C2 Literature Gen Ed requirement.

Organized around individual instructors’ chosen topic or theme, the 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.

For this particular section of the course, the chosen topic or theme will be the notoriously complex and controversial relationship between atheism and literature, ranging from the poetry of Lucretius in Roman antiquity, the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries in Renaissance England, the prose of Albert Camus in the twentieth century.

** NOTE: This course is a Hybrid Course. Class meets only once in person each week: Tuesdays, 12:45-2:00 p.m. The other part of the class is conducted asynchronously online, with students required each week on Canvas both to post a brief written response to a weekly assignment and to engage with the postings from that week of their classmates. **

Schedule: Tuesday From 12:45 pm To 2:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Introduction to Literature (110-114)

Teaching Faculty: Miller Jeffrey (millerje)

Is course canceled: No