Academic Calendar 2015/2016 - Short Stories: Snapshots of Life

ENGL 2011  Short Stories: Snapshots of Life

Prerequisites:

18 credits completed

Antirequisites:

ENGL 3497 (when topic is The Short Story)

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

The short story is one of the most popular forms of modern fiction, and students examine texts from the genre's earliest days to recently published work. Considering a variety of authors, styles, and themes, students attend to changes in the form itself, and address ways that the short story conveys depth of human emotion and experience. This non-essay course is directed to students not majoring in English Studies and counts only as an elective. This course may not be credited towards a program in English Studies.