Course details
Name: ENGL - 110
Title: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: THE ANALYTIC ESSAY
Section: 05
Semester: Fall - 2023
Credits: 3
Description:
Taught by Steffi Dippold:
Can you Find the Wolves in the Picture? The Analytic Essay
Let’s crack the system and learn to read and write like an English pro! This class focuses on Native American Studies and introduces students to key conventions of reading, writing, and creative concept-making crucial to flourishing as an English undergraduate. We’ll look at short stories by Louis Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, yet the central text for class discussions will be David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon alongside Martin Scorsese’s forthcoming movie adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon with Lily Gladstone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jesse Plemons, and Robert DeNiro (release date: October 2023). Have a look at the stunning trailer that asks us to find the wolves in the picture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG0si5bSd6I ). If you are curious about Native American literature and movies, you will come away from this course with a solid understanding of how story-telling works across various media and historic periods and a sophisticated and precise vocabulary to address what you discover in close-readings.
Required Text: David Grann. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (2017) ISBN-10: 9780385534246 / ISBN-13:978-0385534246
Last updated on 2023-05-20 By
Lykidis Alexios (lykidisa)
Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 3:45 pm To 5:00 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Introduction to Literature (110-114)
Teaching Faculty: Staff English Dept. (staff)
Is course canceled: No