ENGL 115 - Literature and Critical Writing: Literary Genres (W)

3 Credit(s)

Writers of literature use imagination and aesthetic form to explore what it means to be human. This course introduces students to the principal categories of literary writing: poetry, fiction, drama, and creative non-fiction—their techniques and modes of presentation, ranging from the expressive to narrative to performative. Selected works may be grouped by instructors around a focused topic or theme and will feature a blend of classic and contemporary writing. Students engage with texts via close reading, class discussion, and writing assignments designed to stimulate critical thinking: e.g., analysis, synthesis, reflection, source-based writing, and multimodal composition. Students discover how literature produces meaning, how it entertains, increases empathic understandings of self and other, and exposes us to the diversity of experience as well as our common humanity.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 or ENGL 103