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Artistic and Literary Studies - Literary (ALS-L)
Description:
Artistic and Literary Studies: Two courses, one in each sub-area, intended to develop appreciation and understanding of artistic and literary forms -- their essential elements as well as their various functions in human life and culture.
B. Literary Studies (ALS-L):
Intended learning outcomes for students:
Students will demonstrate:
- The ability to identify, analyze and evaluate the formal properties of primary work in literature (poetry, prose, drama).
- An understanding of the relationship between a work of literature and its cultural context.
- An understanding of the distinctive intellectual and aesthetic experience provided by literature.
Guidelines for courses:
- Literary forms include the genres of poetry, prose, and drama as text.
- Courses must help students achieve an informed appreciation of the aesthetic and formal properties of the literature being studied, and an understanding of the place of the literature within the broader context of human life and culture.
- Courses fulfilling this requirement may be either in creative writing or in literature.
- Creative Writing Courses:
(a) Courses must give equal attention to creative writing and to the reading of primary works.
(b) The writing and the reading may be in one or more genres.
- Literature Courses:
(a) The reading must concentrate on primary rather than secondary or critical texts.
(b) Texts may include works in translation.
(c) The scope of the course must be broad; it must include texts by several writers; it may contain works in one or more genres.
Additional information for faculty proposing ALS-L courses - includes committee comments on course guidelines to assist instructors in preparing proposals for GE accreditation
