Fall 2023 | ENGL 1001W Section 001: Introduction to Literature: Poetry, Drama, Narrative (18833)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Mon, Wed 09:05AM - 11:00AMUMTC, East BankNicholson Hall 110
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (25 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This is a writing-intensive course that also meets the Literature Core requirement. From epic battles against monsters in legendary kingdoms to stories about characters in worlds similar to our own, literature engages us with the diverse perspectives and experiences that make up our communities and world. ENGL 1001W introduces students to ways of understanding and appreciating literature in English across cultures and historical periods. Throughout this course, we will develop skills to help us understand literature, especially the ability to read language closely (a skill valuable in many disciplines beyond literature). We will explore how writers use language and literary aspects, such as genre, voice, tone, symbol, motif, theme, imagery, narrative, and form. We also will learn how to write about literature, sharing our interpretations of how and why literary works have meaning for ourselves and others, while viewing them through critical cultural lenses, including ways to understand how gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and class can function in literary texts.
- Class Description:
- This course examines the topics of race, gender, immigration, and empathy through the lens of short stories, novels, poems, and plays. Students are required to use social annotations for collaborative learning.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18833/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 11 October 2016
Fall 2023 | ENGL 1001W Section 003: Introduction to Literature: Poetry, Drama, Narrative (18835)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 4 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- Instructor Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- UMNTC Liberal Education RequirementFreshman Full Year RegistrationOnline Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023Off CampusVirtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (140 of 140 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This is a writing-intensive course that also meets the Literature Core requirement. From epic battles against monsters in legendary kingdoms to stories about characters in worlds similar to our own, literature engages us with the diverse perspectives and experiences that make up our communities and world. ENGL 1001W introduces students to ways of understanding and appreciating literature in English across cultures and historical periods. Throughout this course, we will develop skills to help us understand literature, especially the ability to read language closely (a skill valuable in many disciplines beyond literature). We will explore how writers use language and literary aspects, such as genre, voice, tone, symbol, motif, theme, imagery, narrative, and form. We also will learn how to write about literature, sharing our interpretations of how and why literary works have meaning for ourselves and others, while viewing them through critical cultural lenses, including ways to understand how gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and class can function in literary texts.
- Class Description:
Language - speaking, writing, reading - is our primary mode of communication. Literature is simply the most "artistic" of our uses of language. Reading and talking about literature thus gives us practice in understanding the ways in which language - all language - can potentially affect us and the world around us. Literature (and, by extension, all art) does not exist in a bubble; it is in and of the world, and far from being some rarified or "frivolous" thing, it enacts the power of language at its most extreme. Learning to recognize that power (both its use and misuse) can give us enormous agency in the world. Because of this, the texts for this class are not important so much for "content" but as "raw material"
that we will work with in lecture, in discussion, and in your writing. Frankly, I don't care if you remember the exact stories or poems we read this semester; but if, 10 years from now, you find yourself affected powerfully by something you read or hear, and you find yourself stopping to think about why and how you are moved, I will consider this course a success.- Grading:
- Your grade will be based on formal writing, discussion participation, in-class work, and writing workshops. The S/N cut off will be B-
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/18835/1239
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 11 October 2016
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