ENGH 201: Reading and Writing about Texts

ENGH 201-020: Reading and Writng About Texts
(Spring 2017)

01:30 PM to 02:45 PM TR

Section Information for Spring 2017

This general education course introduces you to the rewards of reading literature from around the world, a topic of growing interest in English departments around the country. We shall focus on stories and one short novel from outside North America and Western Europe, along with a group of plays. All the readings are in English.

The course mixes lectures and discussion, and emphasizes approaches to reading world literature that will enhance your appreciation and understanding and will encourage you to stay interested after you graduate. Be prepared to cover the world, but remember that literature offers unique insights on specific people and places, not generalities about entire regions!

Our readings range from East Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East to Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe/Russia. They include Nobel Prize winners like Mahfouz from Egypt, Soyinka from Nigeria, and Vargas Llosa from Peru as well as other notable figures like Tolstoy (Russia), Premchand (India), and Murakami (Japan). Writing for the course includes two papers, some shorter exercises, and a final. You also have the option of performing short skits based on excerpts from our drama readings.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Close analysis of literary texts, including but not limited to poetry, fiction, and drama. Emphasizes reading and writing exercises to develop basic interpretive skills. Examines figurative language, central ideas, relationship between structure and meaning, narrative point of view. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Literature
Recommended Prerequisite: 3 credits of 100-level English.
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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