ENGL 2120

Students from all disciplines, and especially those entering or currently enrolled in an English Major or English Minor degree, continue to develop fluency in close critical reading comprehension and written communication and gain practical tools for success in upper-level writing and literature courses. Students critically and creatively interpret and evaluate literary texts in three genres (poetry, drama and fiction) using a range of rhetorical strategies and diverse critical perspectives. They investigate a topic, and critically reflect on the complexities and assumptions of various historical, political and cultural contexts. Students demonstrate scholarly writing that illustrates grammatically-correct style, a coherent and well-structured literary argument, convincing incorporation of literary evidence, secondary source support, and appropriate documentation skills. .