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Oct 02, 2024
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ENGL 170 - Popular Genres: CD
5.00 Credits
Studies a culturally diverse range of popular literature; film and game adaptations; and comic/graphic formatsin various genres, including science fiction, mystery, and horror.
Prerequisite Prerequisite: Placement in ENGL 99 or instructor permission.
Dual Listed as HUM 170
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify, analyze, and compare how writers use genre-defining and genre-defying elements, techniques,and concepts in popular works.
- Describe and analyze the ways that popular works shape and are shaped by cultural/historicalcontexts, trends, attitudes, and beliefs about race, class, gender, sexual orientation, cultural identity, religion, etc.
- Analyze how or if popular genres incorporate a diverse, inclusive range of creators, perspectives, themes, representations, etc.
- Reason clearly by applying critical-reading methods/theories to popular works in order to analyze their features and recurrent themes and to develop plausible, supportable interpretations.
- Support analyses and interpretations of popular works by locating, using, and citing relevant textual and contextual evidence.
Course Typically Offered
Fall, Spring
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