PCADE 063 Introduction to Literature (ESL) (5 credits)
Course Description
A course for novice students examining literary works and techniques through analyses of representative fiction, drama, and poetry emphasizing diversity in content and expression through form.
Course Content
Introduction to the various literary genres
Explore historical, social, and cultural context to understand literary expression
Analysis of texts
Application of critical thinking and reading
This course's Student Outcomes align with the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education. Please see the standards and codes here.
Student Outcomes
1. Identify elements that comprise literary genres in order to understand conventions and story structure. [RCCR 1; RCCR 2; RCCR 3; RCCR 4; RCCR 5; RCCR 6; RCCR 10]
2. Compare works of fiction from a variety of backgrounds and authorship as responses to societal events and trends. [RCCR 1; RCCR 2; RCCR 3; RCCR 4; RCCR 5; RCCR 6; RCCR 10]
3. Practice close reading in order to enhance understanding of texts. [RCCR 1; RCCR 2; RCCR 3; RCCR 4; RCCR 5; RCCR 6; RCCR 10; LCCR 1; LCCR 2; LCCR 3; LCCR 4; LCCR 5; LCCR 6]
4. Write texts that engage in course content. [WCCR 1; WCCR 2; WCCR 3; WCCR 4; WCCR 5; WCCR 9; LCCR 1; LCCR 2; LCCR 3; LCCR 4; LCCR 5; LCCR 6]
Degree Outcomes
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.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
a. Novel reading
b. journaling
c. reading responses
d. essay writing
e. peer review
f. lecture
g. discussion
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