Reading Short Fiction

Catalog description

This course will prepare you to read, understand, and analyze short fiction. To do this, we will read from a collection of short stories to explore the form and explore numerous critical approaches to reading stories. By the end of the course, you will be able to read, analyze, and be able to perform formal, critical, and, ultimately, close readings of any short story. This course contributes to the critical thinking/communication outcome and may be taken to satisfy the core literature requirement.