English 105: The Literary Imagination: An Introduction to Literature

 

Course Description:

 

This course is centered on the human experience as imagined, interpreted, and made significant in the poetry, fiction, and drama of major writers of the world. This course also focuses on improving skill sets related to confidence and facility with language; skill in critical reading, writing, and thinking; and success in academic endeavors. This course will build on the vocabulary of rhetorical techniques you acquired last year as well as introduce additional terms of literary analysis for poetry and fiction. We will concern ourselves with the construction of style analysis and with several other modes of writing. Finally, we will look specifically at strategies to identify tone, and how to apply critical theory to the texts we study. 1 trimester course

 

Graduation Requirements Satisfied with this Course: 

 

Prerequisites: ENG 131 or 111 with a grade of 2.0 or higher.