EN 240 - Studies in Short Fiction

Credit Hours: 3

A course designed to acquaint the student with important works and writers in the short story genre from the nineteenth century to the present, with emphasis on diversity of styles, subjects, and narrative methods.

Fulfills the following SUNY General Education categories:

The Arts
Humanities

Course Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

use and define terminology relevant to the genre;
demonstrate through oral discussion and written work an ability to read fictional works accurately and make reasonable inferences about characters’ personalities and motivations and authors’ implicit intentions and messages;
formulate and discuss analytical questions about fictional texts;
demonstrate through oral discussion and written work an understanding of differences between fictional conventions of different periods; and
demonstrate acquaintance with a significant sample of the oeuvre of at least one author and discuss that author’s chief interests and concerns as exhibited in the author’s fiction.

F/S (C, N, S)