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Engl 121
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As part of the Liberal Studies curriculum, this course immerses you in the experience of literature. Readings that vary across time, culture, and style may lead you to begin thinking differently about yourself and the world. We will not simply appreciate the greatness of literary "masterpieces" or the diversity of human experience like awestruck fans in front of a painting (or Graceland if you prefer). Of course all the literary texts I’ll ask you to read are rich and rewarding in my judgment. But my mission will not be so much to alter your taste in reading as to help you to develop habits of questioning and reflectiveness. Beginning simply and delving more deeply over the course of the semester--class discussion, activities, assignments, and “toolbox” readings will come together to change your literature reading and to enable you to think “theoretically” about such questions as what? why? and how? you read. You will become familiar with and employ interdisciplinary concepts such as authority, reading, subjectivity, ideology, and culture. I hope you will find this kind of thinking relevant to your own work in other classrooms and beyond.
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