ENGL& 112 Introduction to Fiction (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 201 - CCN
Course Description
Explores historical and contemporary literary works and techniques in the genre of fiction, including short stories and novels, emphasizing diversity in content and expression through form.
Course Content
Fiction as a literary genre Craft elements of fiction (e.g. plot, character, setting, narration, perspective, etc.) Fictional form (e.g. flash, short story, novella, graphic novel, etc.) Textual analysis Critical approaches to the study of fiction Historical, literary, and social-political contexts of fiction and its reception Ethical research skills for literary study Rhetorical reception Reading and writing and their relationship to identity and performativity
Student Outcomes
- Examine how writers use fiction for a variety of rhetorical purposes.
- Compare fictional works and their historical, socio-political, and critical contexts.
- Apply various literary critical approaches to fiction.
- Use ethical research skills to support textual interpretations of fiction
- Analyze fictional texts, related criticism, and their contexts to develop argument-based written projects.
- Reflect on how readers’ and writers’ identities and performances shape divergent rhetorical understandings of fiction.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire critical skills to interpret, analyze, and evaluate forms of human expression, which can include creation and performance as an expression of 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.
Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Formal writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses B. Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions C. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting, paraphrase and summary D. Group discussions and classroom activities E. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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