Silabus Introduction to Literature
INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
COURSE OUTLINE
Course Description: This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of literary study and analysis. Students will be introduced to the fundamental elements of poetry, drama, and fiction; basic literary terminology; and strategies for analyzing texts based on close reading. Students will also practice writing short literary analysis.
Course Objectives
• Develop your basic understanding on what literature and its genre are.
• Develop your ability to respond to literary texts in class discussion
• Develop and articulate your own ideas about literary themes
• Present a coherent literary analysis including familiarity with literary devices (plot, character, characteristics, theme, setting, etc)
• Intended to support an argument through quotations and examples from primary, and in some cases, secondary texts (references)
Student Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to do the following:
1. Correctly define commonly used literary terms and use those terms to discuss and analyze works of literature
2. Identify structural elements of works of poetry, fiction, and drama, and analyze how those elements help create specific meanings and effects
Course Content:
1. Comprehensive Definition of Literature and of elements of literary work
2. Readings of a variety of poems, short fiction, and drama
3. Important literary terms and their application to the analysis of specific works
4. Several opportunities to compose written arguments about specific texts incorporating close reading skills and application of literary terms and conventions.
Teaching strategies:
Lecturing is applied to give the students general guidance and theories used to analyze literary works. Besides, Class sessions will be structured to give students opportunity to discuss, analyze, and practice close reading of specific texts. Discussions should emphasize the
COURSE OUTLINE
Course Description: This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of literary study and analysis. Students will be introduced to the fundamental elements of poetry, drama, and fiction; basic literary terminology; and strategies for analyzing texts based on close reading. Students will also practice writing short literary analysis.
Course Objectives
• Develop your basic understanding on what literature and its genre are.
• Develop your ability to respond to literary texts in class discussion
• Develop and articulate your own ideas about literary themes
• Present a coherent literary analysis including familiarity with literary devices (plot, character, characteristics, theme, setting, etc)
• Intended to support an argument through quotations and examples from primary, and in some cases, secondary texts (references)
Student Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to do the following:
1. Correctly define commonly used literary terms and use those terms to discuss and analyze works of literature
2. Identify structural elements of works of poetry, fiction, and drama, and analyze how those elements help create specific meanings and effects
Course Content:
1. Comprehensive Definition of Literature and of elements of literary work
2. Readings of a variety of poems, short fiction, and drama
3. Important literary terms and their application to the analysis of specific works
4. Several opportunities to compose written arguments about specific texts incorporating close reading skills and application of literary terms and conventions.
Teaching strategies:
Lecturing is applied to give the students general guidance and theories used to analyze literary works. Besides, Class sessions will be structured to give students opportunity to discuss, analyze, and practice close reading of specific texts. Discussions should emphasize the