ENG 314 Details

3 Credit Hours

Course Description:

A reading and writing intensive course, ENG 314 builds upon the critical thinking, research and writing skills initiated in ENG 150. Emphasis in this course will be, as indicated by the title, on dramatic literature. More particularly, students will explore plays categorized by one or more sub-genres, authors or periods. The collection of plays covered in this course will help students to appreciate dramatic literature as a living artifact ? one that may serve to commemorate a particular movement/achievement, to unite diverse audiences, to question social norms, to galvanize citizenry to realize political change or to merely delight and entertain. Possible focus areas for the course include the student of a particular classification of dramatic writing (i.e., ?Comedy,? ?Tragedy,? or ?History? plays) or more specialized courses on the range of plays by a particular author (i.e., Henrik Ibsen or Tennessee Williams) or period-based classifications of drama (i.e. Shakespeare/Elizabethan or Twentieth Century Realism and Expressionism). Students will read textual selections closely appreciate the use of various literary elements and to engage in meaning-making. In addition, students should expect to contemplate the attributes that make literature important and aesthetically impactful in the 21st century. Writing assignments will include a range of essays, formal and informal, and include one or more research projects in which students apply and demonstrate mastery of an academic documentation format.

Discipline: English

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