- lecture/discussion
- interviews
- group work
- instructor feedback on students’ written work
Selected literary texts (see sample list).
Selected secondary source materials:
- autobiographical material
- biography
- literary criticism and theory
- cultural and intellectual history
- other arts (music, fine arts, film, etc.)
The successful student should be able to
- recognize the significance of the literary and non-literary or cultural context of a work being studied, such as biographical, historical, mythological, and philosophical contexts;
- read critically secondary sources, such as criticism and other texts by the same author, as an aid to comprehending the primary text being studied;
- read critically and independently works or aspects of works not discussed in class;
- discern both continuity and change within the body of poetry written in English; and
- formulate a thesis on a given subject in one or more specific works and develop this, using suitable textual evidence.
A minimum of 15% must be in-class paragraphs or essays.
A minimum of four evaluations, two of which must be academic essays with a combined value of at least 40% of the course grade.
Writing Competency Bar:
A student must achieve a grade of C- or better upon first submission of at least one required essay in order to achieve a grade of better than P in any university-transfer English course.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students
Sample reading list:
- Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience
- Plath, Ariel
- Yeats, Selected Poetry
Any TWO university-transfer first-year English literature courses, or ONE university-transfer first-year English literature course and ONE university-transfer first-year Creative Writing or English writing course.