ENGL& 111 Introduction to Literature (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 200 - CCN
Course Description
Examines literary works and techniques through analyses of representative fiction, drama, and poetry emphasizing diversity in content and expression through form.
Course Content
A. Introduction to the literary genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay
B. Analysis of texts, emphasizing content, theme, and critical approaches to the study of literature
C. Historical, multicultural, and social contexts for understanding and appreciating literary expression
D. Application of critical thinking and reading, effective communicating, and problem solving skills to literary studies
E. Application of research skills in the study of literature
F. Relevance of literary art to students’ experiences
Student Outcomes
1. Identify the elements that comprise the literary genres of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay.
2. Compare multicultural works of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay as representative responses to historical, social, and cultural contexts.
3. Analyze works of poetry, fiction, drama, and essay 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
Potential Methods
A. Formal writing: essays, essay exams, reports, research reports, summaries, collaborative projects
B. Informal writing: journals, logs, freewriting, brainstorming, summaries
C. Evaluation: portfolios, peer evaluation, group evaluation
D. Class discussion, group discussion, instructor observation
E. Objective test: matching, true/false, multiple choice, short answer
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