ENG 1233 LITERATURE FROM THE MARGINS

Who gets to tell their story? And how can stories ignite social change? This course reads literature from so-called "marginal" writers: authors whose identity, perspectives or subject matter too often excludes them from the English classroom. Students will examine literature's ability to challenge the status quo, spark social justice movements, and ask readers to imagine a different world.

Credits

4 sh

Course Types

Expression, Literature

Offered

Winter

Offered

• Winter

1. This course will develop:
   1) an understanding of the methods of interpreting literature, including the use of varied critical approaches.
2. 2) the ability to ask interpretive questions.
3. 3) an awareness of published literary criticism.
4. 4) an awareness of the distinctions between, conventions of, and terminology appropriate to different genres.
5. 5) an awareness of the pleasures and values of literature.
6. 6) the ability to write analytical and evaluative responses to literature.
7. 7) an awareness of the power of literature to change oneself and the world.
8. 8) the ability to recognize ways in which a reader's personal history and values affect literary interpretation.