Objectives for Literature Courses

See also:
About the Literature Program
Introduction to Literature

Students in literature courses will:

  1. Write fresh interpretations of texts and/or issues in literary
    studies in which you 1) perform a reasonable close reading by analyzing
    relevant literary elements (techniques, themes, forms/genres, stylistic
    choices, or other literary devices), and 2) make appropriate references
    to relevant texts.
  2. Indicate how you (might) use or adapt literary elements (techniques,
    themes, forms/genres, stylistic choices, or other literary devices) used
    by writers in this course for your own development in the arts and
    communications.
  3. Draw upon course materials to develop further, meaningful questions
    about this course, other literature courses, or other areas of the arts
    and communications.
  4. Demonstrate how common or culturally specific heritages,
    perspectives, histories, and/or belief systems influenced the writers in
    this course and the forms or genres in which they wrote.
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