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ENG 250: The Study Of Literature
3 credits
This gateway course for majors and minors covers the essentials of critical writing and literary interpretation. Students will refine their close reading skills across genres while engaging with various theories and methodologies of literary scholarship. The class also introduces students to the practices of effective and properly documented research. (Learning Goals:CW;Distribution Reqs:Humanities)
Learning Goals
General Education Distribution and Learning Goals:This course fulfills the Humanities distribution requirement in the General Education program. This course fulfills the written communication and information literacy learning goals. In exams, written work, and classroom discussions, students will demonstrate their knowledge of assigned texts, their historical contexts, and their stylistic features. Students will develop their own ideas when writing about the primary and secondary texts and make convincing arguments, using textual evidence, for those ideas. Students will build convincing arguments for their essays using both primary literary and theoretical texts and secondary texts. Students will learn correct citation techniques for the three major genre covered in the course, and will produce properly formatted and cited essays. Students will explore the rudiments of database and internet searching for their final essay, to find reputable secondary sources about their primary texts.
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Sections Offered: Spring 2025 |
| The Study Of Literature |
| 0122-250-001 |
K. Swartz |
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Mon/Wed |
8:35 am - 9:50 am |
GC - PSH 106 |
3 |
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| 0122-250-002 |
V. Munoz |
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Tue/Thu |
10:50 am - 12:05 pm |
GC - PSH 107 |
3 |
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Sections Offered: Fall 2024 |
| The Study Of Literature |
| 0122-250-001 |
V. Munoz |
|
Mon/Wed
Fri |
11:00 am - 11:50 am
11:00 am - 11:50 am |
GC - BLH 207 ONL |
3 |
This Course is Filled to Capacity |
| 0122-250-002 |
I. Webb |
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Mon/Wed |
2:25 pm - 3:40 pm |
GC - NEX 159 |
3 |
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