Approaches to Literature

Catalog description

This course provides an introduction to the study of literature and the fundamentals of literary research through course readings that include fiction, poetry, drama or critical essays by writers and scholars from diverse backgrounds and periods. Lectures, discussions, group activities and writing assignments engage students in responding to literature through building upon essential literary terms and relevant critical approaches for generating evidence-based interpretive arguments about texts. The course teaches strategies for close reading, discussing, and writing about literary texts from a variety of critical perspectives, including psychological, historical, environmental, and multicultural. Satisfies the Literature Elective requirement for General Education. Prerequisite(s): EH 105 or EH 124.