Spring Online

Introduction to Literature

Eng 200--Four Quarter Hours

Audrey Lapointe
Ohio University-- Eastern Campus
ohio_english@yahoo.com

Please refer to the complete final course syllabus available on the course Website once the course begins.

Course
Description

Approaches to reading and interpreting fiction, poetry, and drama using skills, techniques, and language of interpretation. Intended for nonmajors.

Prerequisites

One course above ENG 150.

Methods of Course Instruction

Methods of instruction for this course include the Blackboard course content, discussion boards, online lecture notes, email submissions, and a video/DVD that students will view on their own.

Course Objectives

English 200 is aimed at developing and cultivating skills necessary for thinking and writing about literature.

Course outcomes:
Students will learn and practice the application of critical vocabulary in responses to fiction, poetry, and drama. Accompanying the development of these skills are active intellectual investigations about what literature is, who gets to decide the definitions and boundaries of literature, and how these concerns shape how and what we read and our relationships with other people and our world.

General Course Requirements

Course requirements include formal papers, informal papers (reading responses), Blackboard forums (threaded discussion posts), discussion board participation, and class attendance.

Materials

Required

Text(s)

  • The Norton Introduction to Literature, Portable edition. Booth, Hunter, Mays. 0-393-92856-X

  • Death of a Salesman (VHS or CD) 1985 version, directed by Volker Schlondorff

Note: The books for the course are in stock at College Bookstore, (740) 594-3505. Click here for online ordering.

Alternative source where materials should be obtained: Amazon.com or other Internet bookseller or DVD seller

Exams
Requirements

None

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