EL 310 - Junior Seminar

Institution:

Saint Vincent College

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Description:

In this course, all English majors are responsible for drawing on their experience with literature and writing to analyze four "core texts" corresponding to four comprehensive questions: 1. What is the relationship of literature to reality? 2. How does non-Scriptural literature explore questions of spirituality? 3. What are the key questions of gender? 4. Why are Quest, Landscape, and Journey so prevalent in literature? As these questions provide a nexus for analytical exchange, all students must read the same four core texts, which represent the teacher's choices for texts that provide some answer to the core questions. In turn, students present "branch texts," or works of their own choosing, which they feelprovide substance that helps to answer one of the questions. Thus, the reading-discussion-presentation format of EL 310 Junior Seminar gives students the opportunity to weave their knowledge as majors into perspectives, insights, approaches or answers that invoke both the core texts and branch texts; this format also encourages individuality, synthesis, and fluency. Requirements: to read four core texts in the light of the four comprehensive questions, and on them to base four presentations; and to write four essays based on the presentations. Also, a minor project (bibliography) and class participation are part of the class workload. One of the final products of this course will be an approved proposal for the student's senior research project. Three credits.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stvincent.edu

Phone Number:

(724) 539-9761

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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