EN 215 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theories Full Curriculum Program Spring 2024 Semester CEA CAPA & JCU Hybrid - Rome

Designed as an introduction to the theoretical approaches to literature, the course will stimulate students to think and write critically through the study of the principal topics of literary theory. The course will adopt both a historical approach, covering each theory in the chronological order of its appearance on the scene, and a critical approach - putting the theories to the test by applying them to a literary text. The course will also help students to move on to an advanced study of literature by introducing them to the research methods and tools for the identification, retrieval, and documentation of secondary sources. This is a reading and writing intensive course. Students in 200-level literature classes are required to produce 4-5,000 words of critical writing.