Interactions are analyzed as linguistic and cultural systems which overlap to create both communication breakdown and richness. Major emphasis is placed on communicating in the workplace, especially regarding ethnic and gender issues and superior-subordinate interactions. The development of student competency in interpreting prose, poetry, and short drama orally with study of the techniques of analysis and presentation. Emphasis will be on class performance. Each student will be taught appropriate analytical techniques which, in conjunction with improved reading efficiency, will allow the student to accomplish a variety of common required collegiate reading tasks.
Content includes extensive field work.
Topics may vary from semester to semester. They may include study of individual authors, literary periods, or themes. Such areas as mysteries, westerns, sports, biography, science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction may be considered. Woman characters from the classics as well as contemporary literature will be compared and contrasted. The voices of women as projected in modern poetry will also be explored.