Exploring Fiction
Prerequisites: UCLR 100, UCLR 100C, UCLR 100E, UCLR 100M, or equivalent; please check requirements for declared majors/minors for exceptions.
This course focuses on the understanding, appreciation, and criticism of prose fiction.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of fiction as a means of exploring human experience and understanding the creative process, and be able to use the technical vocabulary necessary for understanding fiction.
Prerequisites: UCLR 100, UCLR 100C, UCLR 100E, UCLR 100M, or equivalent; please check requirements for declared majors/minors for exceptions.
This course focuses on the understanding, appreciation, and criticism of prose fiction.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of fiction as a means of exploring human experience and understanding the creative process, and be able to use the technical vocabulary necessary for understanding fiction.
Pre-requisites: UCWR 110, C- or higher
Writing Intensive and Multicultural
Tier 2 Literary Knowledge
This is a writing intensive class. A grade of C- or better in UCWR 110 is required to enroll.
We will explore major critical approaches and apply them to a range of literary texts. Our theme: what comprises and compromises social class and wealth? Our course will help refine our critical thinking and analytic abilities. To that end, we will work on close reading, focused discussion, and effective writing.
We will also explore and apply a range of theories (including Post Colonialism, Gender, Psychology, and Marxism) to our course texts. Each class, we will discuss our readings together. That gives you opportunities to share ideas and raise questions. We will have two exams, two papers, a group presentation, and an in-class reading journal. Our readings include Dorothy West¿s ¿Rachel,¿ Guy du Maupassant¿s ¿The Necklace,¿ Charles Perrault¿s ¿Bluebeard,¿ James Cain¿s The Postman Always Rings Twice, and Scarlett Bermingham¿s Big Boy Pants.
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