Literature Outcomes and Curriculum Map
Goal 1: Practice close reading:
“Close reading” includes but is not limited to reading literary texts to identify and interpret word choices such as inferences, ambiguity, and figurative language.
Goal 2: Perform literary research:
“Literary research” includes but is not limited to using primary, secondary, and visual source materials, accessed in various ways, including electronic databases.
Goal 3: Write well and creatively.
“Write well and creatively” includes but is not limited to demonstrating the ability to develop and support forceful, complex theses which acknowledge counterarguments
and use a vocabulary of literary terms.
“Write well and creatively” includes but is not limited to demonstrating the ability to write formally complete works within a genre (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry).
Goal 4: Demonstrate understanding of the interconnectedness of authors, literary traditions, and forms.
“Interconnectedness” includes but is not limited to connections across time, culture, and national and linguistic boundaries.
Goal 5: Understand literature in an interdisciplinary fashion.
“Understand literature in an interdisciplinary fashion” includes but is not limited to studying Literature to think creatively about problems within and beyond literary studies.
Goal 6: Understand that Literature develops over distinct periods.
“Understanding that Literature develops over distinct periods” includes but is not limited to analyzing this development and periods using different theoretical approaches.
Course Title
LITR XXX
201: Readings
In Poetry
202 Mag.
Workshop
203 Methods
of Lit Study
210: Lit and
Fillm
212:Detective
Fiction
220 Survey of
Am. Lit I
221Survey of
Am. Lit II
223: Survey of
Am. Poetry
224:Am.
Drama
226: Am. Short
Story
228: Col. Am.
Lit
230:19th Cent.
Am. Lit
231:19th.Am.
Women
Authors
232:20thAm.
Novel
233:Harlem
Ren.
234: Contemp.
Am. Lit
235: Af. Am.
Lit
236: Multicult.
Lit
237:Irish Am.
Lit
240:Survey
Brit Lit I
242: Survey
Brit Lit II
244:
Shakespeare’s
Plays
1. Close Reading
2. Literary
Research/Database
3. Write Well & Creatively
4. Interconnectedness of
authors, etc.
5. Interdisciplinarity of Lit
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Course Title
LITR XXX
246: Shakesp.
on Film
250: Eng.
Novel
252: Modern
Irish Lit
260: World
Mythology
264: Survey of
Drama
265: The
Hebrew Bible
266: Christian
Bible
268: Survey
Greek Drama
269: Lit of
Middle Ages
270: Survey
European Lit
271: European
Short Story
272: Mod.
European
Drama
273:Mod.
Novel in
France
274: Russian
Lit & Culture
275: Survey of
Latin Am. Lit
276: Lit of
Americas
277: Survey of
African Lit
279: The
Graphic
Narrative
280: Intro. CW
282:Fiction
Writing
Workshop
283: Poetry
Writing
Workshop
1. Close Reading
2. Literary
Research/Database
3. Write Well & Creatively
4. Interconnectedness of
authors, etc.
5. Interdisciplinarity of Lit
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Course Title
LITR XXX
284: Cr.
Nonfiction
Workshop
290: Topics
302: Grammar:
Theory and
Pedag.
304: History of
Eng.Language
306: Lit:
Theory &
Criticism
308: Children’s
& YA LIt
310:
Existentialism
312: Comp.
Fem. Theories
314: Trans.
19th c. Poetry
319: Major
Authors
320: Comic
Am. Novel
326: Am.
Romanticism
332: South.
Am. Writers
334: Af. Am.
Women
Writers
338: Latino Lit
of US
340: Brit.
Medieval Lit
342: Age of
Chaucer
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2.Literary
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346: Eng.
Romantic Poets
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348: Vict.
Secrets: Poetry
& Prose
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Course Title
LITR XXX
354 The
Medieval and
Modern in
Tolkien's
Middle Earth
362: Int. 19th
Cent. Novel
363: Int. 20th
and 21st Novel
366: Lit of
Holocaust
368: Italian.
Ren. Study
370: Contemp.
Italian Lit
372: Sp.
Renaissance
Lit
374 World
Literature and
the
Environment
376: Braz. Lit
& Cult.
378: Black
Odyssey
381: CW
Capstone
390: Topics
414: Lit
Seminar
1 .Close Reading
2.Literary
Research/Database
3.Write Well & Creatively
4. Interconnectedness of
authors, etc.
5. Interdisciplinarity of Lit
6. Periods of Lit
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