EN 360 - Series: Genre Studies

Institution:

Alverno College

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Description:

Prereq. Integrated Communication Level 4 - Courses in this series explore how and why we categorize literature by types, including testing out the boundaries of familiar classifications in fiction or nonfiction writing, such as poetry or autobiography. Courses include the Contemporary Novel and Autobiography. The student reads historical and contemporary works typically associated with a genre in order to infer characteristics of the type. She compares her experience as a reader with theoretical and applied articles about that type of literature, and builds her own analytical framework to represent the components of the genre being studied. She refines her understanding of a particular genre and expands her understanding of how it has been constructed by professional critics. Her creative writing experiments complement the analytical assignments in the course, providing another way to understand a genre and her own responses to it.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.alverno.edu

Phone Number:

(414) 382-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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