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The official departmental goals and guidelines for English 281 are available at the Core Courses Main Page on the department site. We shall review these throughout the semester.
My purpose here is to introduce you in more detail to our course. Although our primary focus will be literary texts (and the theories and critical approaches used in their analysis), we shall also explore the many other areas that constitute English studies, such as creative writing, rhetoric, linguistics, and cultural studies. We will read works from a wide variety of genres, and in the process, you will also receive an introduction to several critical approaches. At the end of the course, I hope that you will have an understanding of the extraordinary breadth of the discipline and an appreciation of the rigor with which it is practiced.
You can expect the following over the next three months:
an introduction to the serious engagement with primary and secondary texts;
an introduction to research sources and methodologies;
an introduction to the importance and types of scholarship in the humanities;
an overview of critical theory and practice in English studies;
a review of the genres, media, and fields of specialization in contemporary English studies;
extensive practice in responding to texts (and the issues they raise) in writing.
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