ENGL 115 - Introduction to Novels

Credits: 5
Study of various novels with emphasis on how to read, enjoy and understand the works. Includes selected works of significant English, European, and American novelists from Cervantes to the present.

Prerequisite: Eligible for ENGL 099 or instructor’s permission.

Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Identify the common elements of novels;
Examine a variety of novels and authors from a range of perspectives based on race, gender, class, sexuality, disability, and/or geographic location.
Demonstrate reading skills and strategies for the analysis of novels;
Explain the ways in which novles connect with diverse human experiences;
Compose written interpretations in response to novels;
Participate in discourse about the novels and the associated themes, engaging a range of diverse perspectives and interpretations.

Program Outcomes
Demonstrate college-level reading skills by summarizing, analyzing, interpreting, synthesizing, and evaluating college texts; and develop an awareness of the approaches writers use for different audiences, genres, and rhetorical situations.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.