2017-2018 Official General Catalog [Archived Catalog]
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LIT 285 - Autobiography
An examination of a variety of autobiographies from various times, cultures, and backgrounds. Emphasis on detailed literary analysis of style, content, and context. Students will be expected to engage in memoir writing and other various personal writing exercises to better appreciate and critique the autobiographical experience.
Prerequisite- Corequisite
Prerequisite: ENG 110 College Writing I
Credits: 3
Hours
3 Class Hours
Course Profile
Learning Outcomes of the Course:
Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
1. Have improved their ability at oral discourse by discussing and explaining their interpretive responses.
2. Have improved their ability to write analytically and argumentatively by composing applications of critical methods to literary works.
3. Identify literary devices and define them.
4. Use specific details to support a claim about a text.
5. Express their interpretation of a work in clear expository prose.
6. Utilize various literary analysis approaches toward literature.
7. Students will be able to express multiple viewpoints about the life questions dealt with in literature (even if they disagree with those viewpoints).
8. Relate one literary work to another, and also to the culture from which it emerged.
9. Learn and demonstrate competence in basic principles and techniques of literary research, using print as well as electronic sources.
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