2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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LITE 105 - Introduction to Literature 3 CR
Studies in critical reading and appreciation of the major forms in fiction, poetry, and drama. Required course for English majors and minors.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - General Education Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate familiarity with literary concepts and devices within various genres.
- Practice close readings of various literary texts in writing and class discussion.
- Write persuasive interpretations of various literary texts.
- Demonstrate an understanding of important historical contexts and cultural practices that shape literary works.
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LITE 205 - World Literature 1 3 CR
A survey of world literature from the beginning of civilization to 1600.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate familiarity with the historical context in world literature.
- Practice close reading of various texts in world literature.
- Write a persuasive interpretation of a text with a clear controlling idea and well-chosen, well-organized evidence to support your argument.
- Support ideas and claims using specific textual support.
- Exhibit in written responses familiarity with literary analysis.
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LITE 206 - World Literature 2 3 CR
A survey of world literature from literature from 1600 to present.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate familiarity with the historical context in world literature.
- Practice close reading of various texts in world literature.
- Write a persuasive interpretation of a text with a clear controlling idea and well-chosen, well-organized evidence to support your argument.
- Support ideas and claims using specific textual support.
- Exhibit in written responses familiarity with literary analysis.
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LITE 211 - American Literature 1 3 CR
A survey of American literature to the early twentieth century.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate familiarity with the historical context in American literature.
- Practice close reading of various texts in American literature.
- Write a persuasive interpretation of a text with a clear controlling idea and well-chosen, well-organized evidence to support your argument.
- Support ideas and claims using specific textual support.
- Exhibit in written responses familiarity with literary analysis.
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LITE 212 - American Literature 2 3 CR
A survey of American literature from the early twentieth century to the present.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate familiarity with the historical context in American literature.
- Practice close reading of various texts in American literature.
- Write a persuasive interpretation of a text with a clear controlling idea and well-chosen, well-organized evidence to support your argument.
- Support ideas and claims using specific textual support.
- Exhibit in written responses familiarity with literary analysis.
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LITE 213 - Children’s Literature 3 CR
A general survey of the prose, poetry, and illustrated books suitable for the elementary grades. Lab Fee
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Exhibit a clear understanding of the characteristics and genres of children’s literature.
- Exhibit a clear understanding of the audiences of children’s literature.
- Relate the ideas of a text to its broader cultural landscape.
- Demonstrate mastery of the tasks required to successfully analyze a literary text.
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LITE 217 - Film Interpretation 3 CR
An introduction to film, including visual elements, meanings, and genre through the study of outstanding examples of historical and contemporary feature films. May include foreign films. Lab Fee
Additional Information: Recommend prior or concurrent: Take ENGL 151 .
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate knowledge of historical and cultural contexts in cinema and filmmaking in both foreign and domestic films.
- Practice close reading and analysis of film and texts discussing films.
- Demonstrate competence in the tasks required to successfully analyze.
- Write a persuasive interpretation of a film with a clear controlling idea and credible, well-organized evidence to support an argument.
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LITE 223 - Shakespeare 3 CR
A study of selected Shakespearean plays designed to increase the reader’s appreciation and understanding of Shakespeare’s art.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate an understanding of dramatic conventions in Shakespeare’s plays.
- Utilize critical analysis strategies to deconstruct and interpret specific passages, scenes, and sonnets.
- Demonstrate an understanding of historical, political, cultural, and religious factors that helped shape Elizabethan life and drama.
- Explain why some scholars view Shakespeare’s body of work as the secular bible of the western world.
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LITE 230 - Bible as Literature 3 CR
This course offers a critical study of the Hebrew Bible, the Apocrypha, and the Christian Bible as distinct but related literary and theological traditions.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate familiarity with historical, social, political, and cultural contexts affecting Biblical literature.
- Practice close reading of various texts in Biblical literature.
- Demonstrate competence in the tasks required to successfully analyze a literary text.
- Write a persuasive interpretation of a text with a clear controlling idea and well-chosen, well-organized evidence to support your argument.
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LITE 240 - African American Literature 3 CR
A survey of African-American literature from 1600 to the present.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate familiarity with historical and social contexts affecting African American literature
- Practice and discuss the close reading of various texts in African American literature.
- Present on, or write a persuasive interpretation of a text with a clear controlling idea and well-chosen, well-organized evidence to support your argument.
- Support, in writing or in a presentation, ideas, and claims using specific textual support from the assigned readings.
- Exhibit, in classroom discussion, a presentation, and/or written responses, familiarity with literary terms.
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LITE 241 - Science Fiction 3 CR
An exploration of the background major themes and types, authors, and influences of science fiction. The goal is to become acquainted with the inter-relationship between science fiction as an art form and the cultures from which it develops as a mode of perceiving and defining reality.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Develop an understanding of the nature of speculative fiction in general and science-fiction specifically.
- Acquire an understanding of the genre as presenting a critique, often ironic, of social conditions, trends, fads on a local and global scale.
- Explore the nature and limits of how reality is defined/perceived.
- Recognize the scope and range of science fiction literature.
- Explore the impact/influences of media on the science fiction genre.
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LITE 285 - Studies in the Novel 3 CR
Studies in the relationship of literature and literary study to a second discipline: science, philosophy, psychology, social science, or fine arts. The literary genre and period and the second area vary from semester to semester. Course may be repeated for credit toward graduation up to six credit hours.
Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate an understanding of fictional conventions in novels.
- Utilize critical analysis strategies to deconstruct and interpret specific passages within a larger work of fiction.
- Demonstrate an understanding of fiction’s connection to at least one other discipline, genre, or topic: i.e. history, sociology, graphic arts, censorship, etc.
- Work collaboratively with classmates to synthesize material on a novel, author, and/or topic for the purpose of a group presentation.
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