2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog 
    
    May 02, 2024  
2022-2023 Pierce College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ENGL& 112 Introduction to Fiction (5 credits)



Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 201 - CCN

Course Description
Examines literary works and techniques in the genre of fiction, including short stories and novels.

Course Content
A. Introduction to the literary genre of fiction
B. Analysis of texts, emphasizing content, theme, and critical approaches to the study of fiction
C. Historical, multicultural, and social contexts for understanding and appreciating fiction
D. Critical evaluation of the art of fiction writing
E. Application of research skills in the study of fiction
F. Relevance of fiction to students’ experiences

Student Outcomes
1. Identify the elements that comprise the literary genre of fiction.

2. Compare multicultural works of fiction as representative responses to historical, social, and cultural contexts.

3. Analyze works of fiction using various approaches to literary criticism.

4. Demonstrate research skills to locate and apply information relevant to the course content.

5. Research and document a written project that critically engages the course content.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50



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