Course Overview

This course trains students to construct independently reading responses that are both aesthetic and interpretive. In addition to analytical skills of reading the three major genres of literature, including short story, poetry and drama, the students will also learn how contexts are significant in appreciating a wide spectrum of meanings generated from a text. Each session will be composed of workshops, lectures and whole-class discussions.

Learning Achievement

By the end of the course, each student is expected to demonstrate intermediate skills of analyzing literary works in a process of reading and the synthesizing capacity of relating a text to contexts and other texts. One is also to learn how to share and explain one's ideas about literary works in writing, and defend them using concrete supports.

Competence

Course prerequisites

Prerequisite:
Approaches to Literature (1).

1.Reading assignments should be done before coming to class. 2.Participate in class discussions collaboratively. 3.Attendance and participation Anyone who misses the class more than three times will not pass this course. You are encouraged to avoid chronic lateness. Anyone who misses more than one hour of the class will be counted as absent half a time. 4.You are responsible for being in time for tests. No makeup exams will be given unless under extreme circumstances. 5.Assignments are expected to be handed in on the due day.

Grading Philosophy

Course schedule

Course type

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Chi-She Li

Other information

*Majors-only (including minor and double major students).
(College of Liberal Arts) Department of Foreign Languages and Literature

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