ENGL 115 Popular Literature and Analysis
Texts include novels, short stories, films, and television shows to illustrate how literature is always adapting and evolving to fit the times. The course focuses on basic literary analysis skills, geared towards non-majors. Offered Spring semester annually.
Offered
Spring
Student Learning Outcomes
- Identify literary devices within a work of literature
Examine the relationship between a text’s content and its form/genre
Analyze the use of figurative language in “making meaning” within a literary work
Explain the relationship between part of a text and the message and/or function of the text as a whole
Connect a text to its sociocultural and/or sociopolitical contexts
Compose a coherent argument about a literary text