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HUMN 142 Studies in Literature
Learning Objectives: Modules 1-4
Module 1: Life, Death, and the Art of the Novel
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Summarize the major features of the novel.
Analyze how a story is structured.
Develop a vocabulary for discussing literature.
Analyze more carefully the meaning of death.
Module 2: Revelation in the Short Story: Character and Setting
1. Define the principle of revelation as it applies to the short story.
2. Distinguish between novel and short story by referring to more than one feature of either literary form when making that distinction.
3. Offer a defensible interpretation of a short story by pointing to specific features of characterization within that story.
4. Demonstrate how emphasized features of a story's setting help the reader to better understand character and to further establish a defensible interpretation of a short story.
Module 3: The Short Story: Considering Mood, Effect, and Humor
1. Distinguish mood from effect, as either applies to the short story.
2. Point to particular passages in a work of short fiction to clarify what you identify as the story's mood.
3. Relate mood to theme.
4. Support your interpretation of a fictional narrative's effect by citing evidence from the text that you feel clearly works to establish that effect.
5. Define comedy and four comic genres.
6. Define irony and explain its uses in literature.
7. Distinguish among verbal, situational, and dramatic irony.
Module 4: The Self in Isolation: Theme and Point of View
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Explain point-of-view and the differences between first- and third-person narration.
Identify the point-of-view in a short story.
Assess the freedom and limitations imposed by various points of view.
Define "theme."
Using textual evidence, speculate about the author's intent in a particular work.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Learning Objectives: Modules 1-4
Module 1: Life, Death, and the Art of the Novel
1.
2.
3.
4.
Summarize the major features of the novel.
Analyze how a story is structured.
Develop a vocabulary for discussing literature.
Analyze more carefully the meaning of death.
Module 2: Revelation in the Short Story: Character and Setting
1. Define the principle of revelation as it applies to the short story.
2. Distinguish between novel and short story by referring to more than one feature of either literary form when making that distinction.
3. Offer a defensible interpretation of a short story by pointing to specific features of characterization within that story.
4. Demonstrate how emphasized features of a story's setting help the reader to better understand character and to further establish a defensible interpretation of a short story.
Module 3: The Short Story: Considering Mood, Effect, and Humor
1. Distinguish mood from effect, as either applies to the short story.
2. Point to particular passages in a work of short fiction to clarify what you identify as the story's mood.
3. Relate mood to theme.
4. Support your interpretation of a fictional narrative's effect by citing evidence from the text that you feel clearly works to establish that effect.
5. Define comedy and four comic genres.
6. Define irony and explain its uses in literature.
7. Distinguish among verbal, situational, and dramatic irony.
Module 4: The Self in Isolation: Theme and Point of View
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Explain point-of-view and the differences between first- and third-person narration.
Identify the point-of-view in a short story.
Assess the freedom and limitations imposed by various points of view.
Define "theme."
Using textual evidence, speculate about the author's intent in a particular work.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University