EN 111 - Composition and Interpretation of Literature

Fulfills the following SUNY General Education categories: 

• The Arts
  
• Humanities
  

Note: a course can only be used to fulfill one General Education category.

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

• 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.