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Mar 13, 2025
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LIT 2020 - Contemporary Literature3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course focuses on the influential literature published in the last 50 years in order to enhance students’ understanding and appreciation of multiple literary forms, as well as to explore important human concerns in contemporary life. Readings may be drawn from contemporary poetry, novels, plays, short stories, graphic novels, flash fiction, fan fiction, collaborative online fiction, and essays. Films may also be used to give students visual reference to what has been studied. Texts may come from diverse global traditions. This course meets the following Raider Core CLO requirement: Exhibit Curiosity. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Identify specific contemporary authors and literary texts
- Isolate elements of short stories, novels, flash fiction, poetry, essays and drama
- Consider online writing environments (fan fic and flash fic) and how they play into more formal literary traditions.
- Recognize primary analytical components of literature: character, plot, setting, language
- Discover political, social, cultural, and aesthetics themes that are characteristics of contemporary literature
- Engage with contemporary literature by composing their own creative works
- Analyze disparate texts and compose papers showing how the works resonate or build to a larger understanding of contemporary literature
- Collaborate on group projects to present to the class
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Introduction to literary theory
- Approaches to reading and interpretation
- Short stories
- Poetry
- Literary nonfiction
- Novel
- Play
- Flash fiction/fan fiction
- Graphic novels
Coordinator
Dr. Jennifer Farrell
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