ENG 201 Literary Genres and Critical Approaches
Serves as the department's gateway course to the study of literature, introducing students to fundamental generic questions and an array of current critical approaches to literature. Student work is focused upon the critical reading of one or two exemplary English language masterworks in each of three literary genres-poetry, drama, and prose fiction-in conjunction with the study of several significant critical essays devoted to each of these works. Evaluation is based upon several (at least three) student papers submitted during the course of the semester that stake out and defend a position on the literary work in relation to the critical approaches studied. Required of all English majors and education majors seeking AYA certification in English.