ENGL 320 Reading and Writing about Text
This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to apply their knowledge of literary criticism and critical thinking directly to specific texts in a variety of ways and formats, from producing analytical essays to composing lesson plans. Students will be able to choose their own texts and critical lenses, working with the instructor to plan, organize, and develop strategies for engaging literature in a formal way. Students will look at examples of essays written by literary scholars and theorists as well as supplementary materials provided to accompany a reading. A feature unique to this course as taught at TMCC will include a relational analysis of formal criticism as a predominantly Western mode of academic scholarship in the Humanities that can nonetheless be adapted within specific cultural contexts and ways of knowing—including the Native and tribal.
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