SPRING HUMANITIES

HUMANITIES C • Spring 2007

If you could…Would you want to live forever? Would you want ultimate power? Would you do anything to survive?

Reading:

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe
(optional) The Crucible, By Arthur Miller

Guiding Questions:

1. How does literature relate to ITSELF?
2. How does literature relate to YOUR SELF?
3. How does literature relate to the WORLD?

Throughlines:

o Becoming critical readers takes careful reading, from different perspectives.
o Becoming critical readers helps us become critical thinkers.
o Becoming critical thinkers helps us become wiser human
o Being a wiser citizen helps us avoid making monsters

Assignments:

Due Tuesdays--50 pages reading; Critical Reading Quiz & Assigned Paper
Due Thursdays--25 pages reading & Vocab. list
Course Projects:Frankenstein Literary Criticism Forum and Frankenstein's or Faust’s Journals
Final Exam: Essays, short answers and vocabulary

Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

Approaches:
Historical, Biographical, Gothic Genre, Scientific, Gender, Deconstruction, Psychological, Mythological, Film, Ethical