2013-14 Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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ENG 250LC - Literary Contexts(4 credits) (Fulfills IGE Literary Contexts requirement)
ENG250LC offers students an introduction to literary study. The topics of individual sections vary by instructor and semester. After completing this writing-intensive course, students will be able to imagine other lives, times, and places by reading a variety of texts; empathize with characters who have diverse stories and perspectives; analyze different genres of literature using the tools of literary study; craft a coherent essay with a clear thesis and careful textual analysis; articulate ways that literature speaks to and informs their own lives; express delight in God through the beauty of language and literary text; and witness God’s presence in the world through literature. Topics include:
Literary Imaginations: For literature to be more than ink stains on white paper, we must use our imaginations to give it life. In this course we shall read works from throughout human history and around the world (India, Greece, Italy, England, Russia, Nigeria, Ireland, Japan) to imagine and understand the world that people have believed in, created, and inhabited.
Reading, Spirituality and Cultural Politics: This course explores how literature can entertain, educate, change, and empower readers. The assignments are designed to refine college writing skills and to deepen students’ critical knowledge and imaginative experience of literature. The end goal of this course is that in learning to understand and serve their literary neighbors, students will be better equipped to understand and serve their literal neighbors.
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