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Department Committees Sophomore Literature Course Committee
Sophomore Literature Course Committee
Chair: Rebecca Marez
Email: rmarez@delmar.edu
Tel: 698-1437
All full-time faculty automatically become members of the committees for the courses they teach. Responsibilities of each committee include:
- Administering course assessment measures
- Selecting textbooks
- Monitoring unit plans
- Reviewing and revising the general course syllabus
- Providing a forum for exchanging ideas on how to improve instruction
The objective of literature in the core curriculum is to expand students' knowledge of the human condition and human cultures, especially in relation to behaviors, ideas, and values expressed in works of human imagination and thought.
Through the study of literature, students will engage in critical analysis, form aesthetic judgments, and develop an appreciation of literature as fundamental to the health and survival of any society. To this end, by the end of the sophomore literature course, students will be able to meet the majority of the following objectives:
- demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works of literature
- understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context
- respond critically to works in literature
- comprehend the physical and intellectual demand required of the author of literature
- articulate an informed personal reaction to works of literature
- develop an appreciation for the aesthetic principles that guide or govern literature
- demonstrate knowledge of the influence of literature on intercultural experiences