ENGL 185 - Sports in Literature

5.0 Credits
Exploration of literary themes relating to sports. Focus is on the individual’s struggle against nature, role within society and capacity for self-knowledge as presented by classical and modern authors.
Prerequisite Placement in ENGL 099 or instructor permission.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Demonstrate knowledge of literary concepts by identifying and describing the formal elements, techniques, and genres of sports literature.
Identify connections between literary works and actual events, both historical and contemporaneous, through an examination of sports and sports literature.
Reason clearly by applying critical-reading methods/theories to sports literature in order to analyze its features and develop plausible interpretations.
Describe and analyze ways that sports literature shapes and is shaped by cultural/historical contexts and trends.
Support analysis and interpretation of sports-literature by locating, using and citing relevant textual and contextual evidence.