702338 - English Short Story
Credit Hours

3

Pre-requisite

702231

Co-requisite

_

Distribution

3+0

This course acquaints students with major narrative devices and formal techniques of the short story. Students come to appreciate narrative methods such as plot, characterization, setting, point of view, theme, figures of speech, dialogue, etc. through detailed analyses of short stories. These formal elements of literary narratives are selected in order to encourage the act of reading and as manifesting and interacting with active cultural processes.