2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

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.

Credits

3

Offered

Spring

Student Learning Outcomes

  1. 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