Course Description

37-212 Seminar: Critical Practices F,W(3-0) [0.50]

This course guides students through a range of critical approaches and explores their implications for readings of a limited number of literary texts. The seminar's main areas of concentration are: (1) close reading, centering on the way a particular poem, work of fiction, or play works in its details and overall structure; (2) critical approaches and methodologies; (3) critical writing and discussion. (Choices of approaches and texts will be determined by individual instructors.) Writing- and presentation-intensive course.

Prerequisites: 37-106.

Concurrent: 37-206

Exclusions: 37-2111/2.

Course Profile

1998-99 Undergraduate Calendar