LIT 301 Introduction to Literary Theory
This course is intended to help prepare students for advanced work in literary study by introducing them to major approaches and debates within the discipline. It will require them to engage with critical work by major and less canonical theorists in the field. Approaches included in this course may include: (post)structuralism, psychoanalysis, New Historicism, Marxism, cultural and media studies, postcolonial studies, critical race studies, gender and queer studies, and ecocriticism. In this course, students will learn to identify, summarize, and explicate critical methodologies and arguments in the study of literature. In addition, students should be able to successfully apply the theoretical and methodological insights they have learned in this course to literary texts within their own written, formal work.
Prerequisite
LIT 201 or instructor permission