ENGL 3001 - Introduction to English Studies

(3) Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of “C” or better
This course introduces students to the reading, writing, critical thinking, and research skills required for advanced study in English and for the enhanced appreciation of literature. Topics include literary history, theory, and criticism, literary genres, literary and rhetorical analysis, social context, and aesthetic experience. In addition to reading primary literary texts, students will read secondary texts dealing with a range of critical and theoretical approaches to literature: textual, historical, biographical, moral, philosophical, formalist, feminist, psychoanalytical, archetypal, Marxist, New Historical, post-colonial, rhetorical, cultural, structural, and post-structural.