ENGL 1100

How Reading Changes Your Life

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Reading changes your life. Sometimes it's a specific book; sometimes it's a way of reading that's new and different. This course will introduce different ways we can read and write about books and media, and their life-changing potential. Designed as an introduction to literary studies, the class hopes to find the cure for how high school and college might have beaten the love of reading out of you, and to help you find a way to love reading again in an environment that (while preparing you for upper-level English classes) stresses pleasure and joy. Emphasis will be on building skills, finding creative ways to respond to your own reading interests, and creating community. This is a course for bookworms and wannabe bookworms who want to know what to do next about how books move them. 

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2022SP

Distribution Category (ALC-AS) (CA-AG, LA-AG)

When Offered Spring.

Satisfies Requirement This course counts toward the post-1800 requirement for English majors.

Comments Non-majors may choose a 3-credit section with less writing. Students considering an English major should choose the 4-credit section.

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