ENGL1321

Meets Mn Transfer Curriculum Goal Area 6 and 8 - Humanities, Global Perspective. This course expands students' perspectives of reading by focusing on national and international literary works published after 1960. Students will analyze and interpret modern literature from diverse authors, genres, and cultural contexts with attention paid to historical awareness. Through interaction with various forms of fiction, such as novels, poetry and plays, students will explore expressions of diverse human experiences from across the world. Tools for reading and writing critically will be emphasized.Student Learning Outcomes

• Analyze representative works of modern fiction from around the world.
• Examine the impact of diversity on the themes of modern fiction.
• Evaluate human universals expressed in literary works from around the world.
• Utilize fiction and literary analysis terminology.
• Recognize elements and themes in literature as social commentary.
• Demonstrate perspectives gained from literature to personal and global situations.
• Evaluate various interpretations of a text and their validity.
• Analyze the support/evidence for a particular interpretation.
• Conduct research to find materials appropriate to use for literary analysis.