LIT 101 - Intro to Literature

1. Apply college-level reading skills to poetry, fiction, and drama
   1. Read a variety of poems, fiction, and plays from a wide range of communities and cultures
   2. Demonstrate understanding of genre distinctions
   3. Apply terminology appropriate to reading literary texts
   4. Use effective reading techniques such as rereading, annotating, close reading, paraphrasing, and summarizing
2. Analyze literature by focusing on textual, structural, and thematic elements
   1. Explain the relationship between literary form and content
   2. Discuss connections between authors and texts
   3. Examine the relationships between diverse literary texts and historical contexts affecting a broad range of identities, cultures, and communities
   4. Analyze literature through the application of one or more critical approaches, such as Formalism, Marxism, Feminism and Gender Studies, Mythological, Psychological, Cultural Studies, and others
3. Interpret poetry, fiction, and drama using elements of literary criticism
   1. Interpret poetry, fiction, and drama in context
   2. Discuss how multiple interpretations exist simultaneously
   3. Interpret literature using one or more theoretical approaches such as Formalism, Marxism, Mythological, Psychological, Cultural Studies, and others
   4. Examine literature using one or more critical approaches that acknowledge the experience of historically marginalized persons, such as Critical Race Theory, Feminism and Gender Studies, Queer Theory, Indigenous Studies, and others
4. Evaluate literature’s continuing relevance to the human condition
   1. Examine the role of diversity in the study of literature
   2. Correlate assigned texts with current events, global contexts, and material from other disciplines
   3. Reflect on how texts shape identities
5. Create effective writing to demonstrate understanding of course goals
   1. Demonstrate awareness of academic conventions for organization, audience, research, and language
   2. Discuss and apply ethical and practical considerations for the use of generative-AI in researching and writing about literature
   3. Generate writing as an active process, using planning, drafting, revising, and editing
   4. Produce written analyses or interpretations
6. Integrate standard college-level documentation practices
   1. Review definitions and consequences of plagiarism
   2. Identify reasons for documentation
   3. Integrate sources effectively within the given context
   4. Document sources using MLA style