Course Information

Spring 2025

Section 938, CRN: 34734

 This course is taught asynchronously and does not meet in person. There are no scheduled Zoom meetings. This section requires the use of Canvas. All coursework is completed on Canvas using an internet enabled device.  

How does reading literature affect the way we see ourselves, each other, and the world?

Literature allows us to see, to a certain extent, through the eyes of another, expanding our ever-limited horizons, or field of vision. Through poetry, fiction, and drama, people are able to envision and speculate about possible futures. Writers will also forever look backwards into the past with what Harold Bloom calls the “anxiety of influence,” in order to take place in the eternal dialogue that crosses oceans spans centuries. As contemporary writers draw on the popular themes and forms of past eras to speak about the world today, an understanding of literary devices and terms becomes indispensable in a reader’s quest for meaning and beauty. The course will be centered on reading, analyzing and writing about short fiction, poetry, drama, and long fiction.  We will be reading selections from a variety of genres and eras including pieces by writers such as Raymond Carver, Kate Chopin, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, Javier Zamora, Kay Ryan, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Yuri Herrera.

Important Dates

Day Class Begins: January 28, 2025  [Find the following dates in the Instructional Calendar or in the online Schedule of Classes by hovering over the deadlines link next to your class listing.]

Day Class Ends: May 20, 2025

Last day to add: February 14, 2025

Last day for refund: February 6, 2025

Last day to drop without W: February 14, 2025

Last day to drop with W: April 24, 2025

Last day to elect pass/no pass: NA

Final Exam Date: May 20, 2025

Syllabus

Spring 2025 Syllabus  

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Spring 2024 

English 1B. "Writing and Literature: Literature and Sight." Section 938, CRN: 34734. Driving Question: How does reading literature affect the way we see ourselves, each other, and the world?  This course is taught asynchronously and does not meet in person. There are no scheduled Zoom meetings. This section requires the use of Canvas. All coursework is completed on Canvas using an internet enabled device.

Spring 2023 

English 1B. "Writing and Literature: Literature and Sight." Section 938, CRN: 34734. Driving Question: How does reading literature affect the way we see ourselves, each other, and the world?  This course is taught asynchronously and does not meet in person. There are no scheduled Zoom meetings. This section requires the use of Canvas. All coursework is completed on Canvas using an internet enabled device.