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2017-2018 Official General Catalog 
    
2017-2018 Official General Catalog [Archived Catalog]

LIT 294 - Nature Literature


Envirolit (Literature of the Environment) is a literary and visual journey into writings and viewpoints about nature, in addition to other explorations that trace the environmental movement.  In this Writing Emphasis course, students will respond to essays, short stories, poems, movies, and books as the usual method of learning, but guest speakers, field trips, research, and individual Service Learning options will also provide educational opportunities.

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.  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.