ENG-102 Introduction to Reading Literature

ENG-102 invites students to learn, practice, and develop the critical reading skills that enable one to understand, interpret, and engage with a variety of literary, academic, and popular texts. Through the study of literature, students will explicitly develop critical reading skills that transfer across disciplines. This course carries SUNY General Education Humanities credit.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

Placement at the ENG-101 level or higher or completion of ENG-090 or ENG-095 

Lecture Contact Hours

3

Lab Contact Hours

0

Other Contact Hours

0

Department

• Humanities

Grading Scheme

• Letter

SUNY Gen Ed Credit

• Yes

Outcomes

1. Students will strategically employ a variety of critical reading strategies for the purpose of analyzing literary texts.
2. Students will compose textual analyses that assert a central interpretive claim and support the claim with direct textual evidence.
3. Students will reflect on their reading, writing, thinking, and discussion experiences in order to better understand themselves as learners and readers.