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ENGL 2043 - Literature and Film: Introduction to Literary Studies

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab None
Course Description: This college literature course intended for all students focuses on the analysis and exploration of both literature and film, including film adaptations of literature. Topics include explorin written and visual texts in order to understand the scope and variety of the human experience. Activities include reading, discussing, and analyzing narrative texts as expressions of the human experience. Some attention is given to film terminology and technique.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: ENGL 1020   with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021  with a grade of C or higher.

Major Content
  1. Literature and Film
  2. Close reading 
    1. Written texts
    2. Visual Texts
  3. Film as text
  4. Film terms and techniques
  5. Narratives and the human condition
  6. Critical frameworks for analyzing literature and film
  7. Using primary and secondary sources

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. describe the scope and variety of literary and film texts.
  2. identify major critical frameworks at an introductory level.
  3. perform close analysis of literary and film elements at an introductory level.
  4. employ major critical frameworks to analyze literary and film texts at an introductory level.
  5. incorporate and document secondary sources at an introductory level.
  6. articulate an informed personal reaction to literary and film texts.
  7. analyze literary and film texts as expressions of individual and human values within historical and social contexts.

Competency 1 (1-6)
06. 01. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
06. 05. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.


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