Welcome to English 200: Advanced Literary Principles! This course is aimed at introducing students to essential critical texts in the study of literary theory. Through a varied reading list of novels, poems, short stories, essays, and films, students will familiarize themselves with broader academic and cultural contexts of literature studies. Close reading and essay writing skills, emphasized in the 100 level English courses, will here be applied to a diverse selection of readings intended to broaden and deepen students’ discussions of the literature, media, and analyses we consume on a daily basis. Our readings will focus on place, indigeneity, sociocultural challenges—both contemporary and historical, inside and out of Canada—and the various factors that make up our senses of self (be they cultural, social, ethnic, gendered, or personal). The overall goal of our class is to demystify these discussions and give students the confidence to excel at higher levels of discussions of literature.
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