ENGL 170 - Popular Genres: CD

5.0 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 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