University of St. Thomas

4 Credit Hours

Students will read and write about literary texts critically and closely. The course emphasizes recursive reading and writing processes that encourage students to discover, explain, question and clarify ideas. To this end, students will study a variety of genres as well as terms and concepts helpful to close analysis of those genres. They will practice various forms of writing for specific audiences and purposes. Students will reflect on and develop critical awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as readers and writers.

4 Credit Hours

Students will read and write about literary texts critically and closely. The course emphasizes recursive reading and writing processes that encourage students to discover, explain, question and clarify ideas. To this end, students will study a variety of genres as well as terms and concepts helpful to close analysis of those genres. They will practice various forms of writing for specific audiences and purposes. Students will reflect on and develop critical awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as readers and writers.

4 Credit Hours

Jane Austen's popularity today is indisputable, even if we judge only by the ongoing movie and TV adaptations of her novels. Why does her work continue to hold our interest? We will read and discuss Austen's novels in the context of her era, a revolutionary period where issues such as the rights and roles of men and women, the injustice of slavery, and the possibilities and terrors of radical political change were hotly debated. The fiction of Austen's time explored these and other "new" ideas, while also experimenting with the form of the novel itself. We will read most of the major novels including NORTHANGER ABBEY, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, EMMA, and PERSUASION and consider works by Austen's contemporaries such as Wollstonecraft, Bage, and Radcliffe. Our goal is to understand Austen's artistic originality and relevance for her own time, as well as for our own, as fully as we can. This course satisfies the British Literature distribution requirement for English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 111/121 and ENGL 112/201-204, or ENGL 190.

4 Credit Hours

Jane Austen's popularity today is indisputable, even if we judge only by the ongoing movie and TV adaptations of her novels. Why does her work continue to hold our interest? We will read and discuss Austen's novels in the context of her era, a revolutionary period where issues such as the rights and roles of men and women, the injustice of slavery, and the possibilities and terrors of radical political change were hotly debated. The fiction of Austen's time explored these and other "new" ideas, while also experimenting with the form of the novel itself. We will read most of the major novels including NORTHANGER ABBEY, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, EMMA, and PERSUASION and consider works by Austen's contemporaries such as Wollstonecraft, Bage, and Radcliffe. Our goal is to understand Austen's artistic originality and relevance for her own time, as well as for our own, as fully as we can. This course satisfies the British Literature distribution requirement for English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 111/121 and ENGL 112/201-204, or ENGL 190.