Introduction to Literature: Making, Meaning, and Mattering

Catalog description

ENG 115 prepares students to think deeply, creatively, and critically about the myriad cultural artifacts we call literature -- from poems, stories, plays, novels, and other multi-genre and/or multimedia forms of writing. Throughout the semester students will hone their ability to define and identify essential characteristics of various genres and literary texts, explain how particular texts function as examples of particular genres, analyze texts with reference to literary terminology, and create original interpretations of texts from multiple genres. We will work as a community of learners to discuss what literature does to and for us as readers who continuously make sense of the world around us and the worlds we would like to inhabit. CAS-B.