Increases academic vocabulary, builds reading rate, and identifies specific information in reading selections necessary for critical reading. Provides required lab work with ENGL 106. CR Examines selected fiction, drama, or poetry from European cultures. Students discuss common motifs and styles, relationships between cultural perspectives, and theories concerning origins and significance. Popular Literature 5 CR Investigates the themes, conventions, and cultural assumptions of genre-based popular literature.
Specific topics vary and are announced in the class schedule.
223 Children's Literature 5 CR Examines literature written for children. Students discuss its moral, psychological, and political implications and its place in the larger literary heritage. 5 CR Surveys the development of Shakespeare's dramatic and literary art. Students read and analyze representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and histories. CR Continues ENGL 231, examining additional comedies, tragedies, and histories.