ENGL 120 - Autobiography/Biography: Life Stories

5.0 Credits
Exploration of themes common to human experience across time and cultures.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

Identify what impression each author wanted to create and explain what means s/he employed.
Identify values, beliefs and attitudes, infer their sources if not explicit, and offer evidence re: whether they persisted or changed.
Identify point of conflict, crisis and resolution.
Identify and describe commonalities among autobiographies from a diverse range of cultures.
Analyze and explain how personal perspectives affect views of national and international events or trends.
Analyze how context (people, places, events, and culture) shape personal experience and perception.