ENGL 1100 - How Reading Changes Your Life

(ALC-AS, LA-AS)

Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Non-majors may choose a 3-credit section with less writing. Students considering an English major should choose the 4-credit section. This course counts toward the post-1800 requirement for English majors.

E. Cohn.

Reading changes your life. Sometimes it’s a specific book; sometimes it’s a way of reading that’s new and different. This course will introduce different ways we can read and write about books and media, and their life-changing potential. Designed as an introduction to literary studies, the class will sample different approaches, including (but not limited to) media studies, the novel (“classical” as well as “young adult,” whatever that means), graphic novel, memoir, short stories, poetry, and drama. There will be guest speakers representing a range of different approaches. Emphasis will be on building skills and creating community. This is a course for bookworms and wannabe bookworms who want to know what to do next about how books move them.