MLL 311 - Studies in Modern Languages and Literatures in English

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D
This course is an introduction to literary analysis. Students will be introduced to a variety of texts, genres, and styles of literary analysis.

Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements.
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Repeatability: May be repeated for credit for a maximum of 6 units.
Possible Instructional Methods: Entirely On-ground.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Oral Communication: Students will be taught to communicate with and listen to others by expressing their own ideas, listening, and responding to others’ views and ideas in an open-minded and respectful way.
Written Communication: Students will be able to express themselves with a fair amount of sophistication, integrating research information while giving adequate credit to the sources used.
Critical thinking: Students will be familiar with major creative texts and other cultural productions, such as art, music, cinema, and history. They will also learn Critical Thinking, critical, and analytical methods that are reinforced by their language skills. They should be able to relate a variety of cultural productions to the socio-cultural contexts in which they developed.
Multicultural Diversity: Students will demonstrate that they have acquired the knowledge of ethnic cultural diversity, and other forms of diversity such as gender, while developing an appreciation of contributions to the body of diverse cultural productions such as art, music, cinema, and history
Social Justice and Sustainability: Students will be able to act responsibly and recognize the historical and individual perspectives vs the global. Students will demonstrate knowledge of global barriers to equality and social justice, identify and critically access social, cultural, historical, political, national, and/or global inequalities while acquiring the knowledge of multicultural diversity. Students will be able to use multiple forms (essay, research, creative expression) and mediums of communication to investigate, participate in, and/or critique social justice movements in an open-minded and respectful manner.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.