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ENG 255: Types of Literature I: Short Stories and Novels (3 credits)

 

Catalog Description

An introductory literature course featuring techniques of reading and analyzing short stories and novels. Emphasis is on discussion of and writing about characteristics and themes of the works. (3 hrs. lect.)

Prerequisite: Credit for ENG 100 or consent of instructor.


Student Learning Outcomes

  • Use concepts and terminology particular to literary study to analyze and interpret imaginative literary works orally and in writing.
  • Respond to a work of literature as an expression of a culture’s values and compare those values with the student’s own.
  • Enjoy a more creative, enlightened, and fulfilled life through an appreciation of literature’s social, cultural, political, and philosophical significance.
  • Exhibit knowledge about selected short story writers and novelists, and their characteristic themes and techniques.
  • Explore the distinction between the short story and novel as types of fiction.

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