English Studies (ENGL) - Get Smart: Strategies for Understanding Culture

ENGL 3066  Get Smart: Strategies for Understanding Culture

Prerequisites:

Six credits of 2000 level English (excluding ENGL 2001, ENGL 2002 and ENGL 2011).

Antirequisites:

ENGL 3035

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

Students reflect on critical reading strategies, textual practices, and language itself. Students engage in active discussion of metafictional texts (i.e. those that reveal their own inner workings as texts) and theoretical readings. Combining primary and secondary readings, students address such issues as the constitution of literature and culture, the relation of literature to criticism, critical analysis and evaluation.