| Professor | Dr. Leeann Hunter leeann.hunter@wsu.edu 475 Avery (509) 335-2627 |
| Office Hours | TR 12:10-1:00, Avery 475 http://hunter.youcanbook.me |
| Class Meetings | TR 1:25-2:40 |
| Course Website | www.leeannhunter.com/english |
Catalog Description
302 [W] [M] Introduction to English Studies 3 Course Prerequisite: ENGLISH 101 or 298. Interpretation of texts in several fields of English studies including rhetoric, literary study, creative writing and professional writing.
Course Description
This course is an introduction to English Studies that integrates interdisciplinary knowledge from literary studies, rhetoric and composition, creative writing, and professional writing to prepare students for advancement in the English major, as well as critical literacy skills applicable to a variety of professional challenges of the 21st century. In this section of English Studies, we will focus on popular nineteenth-century science fiction, fantasy, and children’s literature as departing points for our exploration of English Studies.
Outcomes and Objectives
This course engages students in meeting the Seven Learning Goals and Outcomes in WSU’s undergraduate curriculum. Below are the specific learning goals that will be emphasized.
Critical and Creative Thinking
- Understand how one thinks, reasons, and makes value judgments, including ethical and aesthetical judgments.
- Think, react, and work in an imaginative way characterized by a high degree of innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
Information Literacy
- Access information effectively and efficiently from multiple sources.
- Access and use information ethically and legally.
Communication
- Recognize how circumstances, background, values, interests and needs shape communication sent and received.
- Choose appropriate communication medium and technology.
Diversity
- Critically assess their own core values, cultural assumptions and biases in relation to those held by other individuals, cultures, and societies.
- Recognize how events and patterns in the present and past structure and affect human societies and world ecologies.
Required Materials
- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Broadview Press, 3rd ed.
- Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (1865), Broadview Press, 2nd ed.
- R.L. Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Broadview Press, 2nd ed.