EN 111 - Composition and Interpretation of Literature

Fulfills the following SUNY General Education categories: 

• The Arts
• Humanities

• recognize and utilize the major elements of a short story: style, character, setting, point of view, plot, structure, and theme;
• demonstrate, in oral discussion and in writing, an awareness of various poetic structures including stanzaic structures, types of rhyme, types of meter, and grammatical structures employed in poetry;
• utilize poetic forms effectively;
• demonstrate, orally and in writing, critical skills and appreciation for superior creative writing; and
• demonstrate, through journal writing, readings, and discussion, the development of a beginning understanding of aesthetics.