Provides a basic skills course designed to equip students to handle the English major. Emphasizes critical writing and the acquisition of basic techniques and vocabulary of literary criticism through ...

The Literature and Critical Analysis minor is offered through Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts. This page outlines requirements for the minor. Students who major in Literary Studies at Lang (BA ...

For years I’ve tried to figure out how to get my “Introduction to Literature” students--99 percent of them not English majors--to appreciate literature. And by “appreciate,” I don’t mean “like.” ...

Literary studies investigate texts through a range of approaches that span traditional close reading and critical theory to modern computational, cognitive, and interdisciplinary methodologies. The ...

Assists in the development of the basics of written expression and reading, including grammar, sentence and paragraph structure, thesis formulation, complexities of expository works. Pass/No Pass only ...

New studies using an MRI machine to track the flow of blood in the brain show how close reading of literacy texts increases multiple complex cognitive functions. In this experiment, participants were ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Provides a basic skills course designed to equip students to handle the English major. Emphasizes critical writing and the acquisition of basic techniques and vocabulary of literary criticism through ...