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ENGL 101 What Is Literature? Units: 3.00
What is literature and why does it matter? Explore the range of language arts that have come to be called literature, whether in print, manuscript, performance, or new media, and how they shape ideas and imaginations. Cultivate your analytic writing and discover new methods and language for scholarly study. Reading lists vary.
Learning Hours: 120 (24 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite None.
Exclusion Maximum of 6.0 units of ENGL at the 100-level.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Describe diverse ways that literature has been experienced and defined as an art.
- Identify and describe different forms, media and genres of literary writing.
- Explain the relevance of the social contexts of writers or audiences to literary expression.
- Collaborate in analysis via discussion.
- Analyze and write about literature using appropriate forms of argument, disciplinary terminology, and interpretive methods.