ENG 108 - Literature and Social Justice

• analyze how literary elements such as character development, setting, and figurative language relate to literary meaning and interpretations of human experience,
• read and respond to literary works of poetry, fiction, and drama from a variety of cultures and from a range of historical periods and recognize formal and rhetorical differences among genres,
• interpret and analyze literary works from diverse cultural perspectives and respond to the ways the works contend with issues of race, class, and gender privilege in relation to social justice,
• identify and reflect on how literary works challenge linguistic, conceptual, and normative presuppositions,
• analyze the ways in which linguistic, religious, philosophical, and historical circumstances shape human experience, and
• synthesize understanding of past humanistic knowledge with current knowledge, making connections between past and present and connect personal experiences to issues of social justice within texts.