English 233 Course SLOs

Demonstrate critical and analytical skills by responding to a variety of contemporary novels through their thematic, figurative, and narrative elements
Identify key elements of the novel as genre, and its subgenres (e.g., the novella, bildungsroman, epistolary novel, metafiction), in order to analyze and interpret novels
Define common literary terms and apply them to the analysis of specific novels and narrative techniques or traditions
Appraise the influence of and relationship between larger political, cultural, and social trends on the development of the novel
Compose formal written analyses of novels that demonstrate the conventions of literary analysis and scholarship
Compose academic discourse and the conventions of critical literary analysis through written exams, multimodal projects, and essays using MLA