ENGL 2341 - Forms of Literature

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours - Lecture: 3
The study of one or more literary genres including, but not limited to, poetry, fiction, drama, and film. Other forms might include mythic and religious writing, autobiographies and memoirs, and polemics. Readings vary. Instructors are free to choose their own emphasis. CIP Code: (1601045113)
Prerequisite: ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302
Student Learning Outcomes
1 - Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attidudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions. 2 - Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods. 3 - Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions. 4 - Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities. 5 - Write research-based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct prose, using various critical approaches to literature.
Core Category Language, Philosophy, & Culture [40]