ENGL 270 Introduction to Literary Criticism
This course is intended to familiarize students with the foundations of literary analysis and criticism. Students will look at what it means to analyze literature and text; how to apply specific critical lenses; and how those lenses are constructed from theories and philosophies. A number of different critical lenses and theories will be surveyed, including structuralism, new historicism, Marxism, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, reader response, and others. Students will read selections from major theoretical works that established specific schools of critical theory. This course will include a major unit on Decolonization, giving students an opportunity to critically examine TMCC’s identity, mission, and curricula in the context of an intentional move to challenge dominant modes and paradigms of thought, identity, metacognition, and value. Special emphasis will be placed on Decolonization theory and praxis throughout the course, inasmuch as it is fundamental to this institution’s own identity as a tribal college serving and empowering a tribal community.
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