Pauline Christiansen

PURPOSES AND OBJECTIVES OF A LITERATURE COURSE
The purpose of this course is to increase your awareness in reading literature so that you may enjoy it more thoroughly as a conscious art form. The objectives in teaching this awareness are as follows:
1.	To show you how a writer focuses your attention on his ideas by deliberate techniques of selection, association, and repetition in his writing
2.	To increase your retention of significant detail in writing since it is this detail that guides your response to a given work and enables you to communicate it to another person.
3.	To introduce you to a variety of writers and styles in writing and how a writer’s style relates to his intention in a given work.
4.	To enable you to apply an analytical approach in exploring a work on your own, without class help.
5.	To clarify any special terminology used in the field you are studying.
6.	To make you aware of the characteristics of the genre or time period or philosophical background of the literature you are studying and how each influences the literary product.
7.	To show how literature as an art form can be seen from many different perspectives and how widening one’s perspectives can enable one to enjoy literature that otherwise migh seem foreign or unintelligible.

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