The course is to introduce to reading and analyzing the primary genres of literature: fiction, poetry, and drama. The course may also include creative nonfiction such as film, song, tv miniseries, and other types of literature. Students will respond critically to readings of different historical and cultural contexts through class discussion and written work.

• Being able to make use of some insights into the nature of literary works into their ideas and being able to define the nature of escape and interpretive literary works
• Possesing knowledge of the divisions of literary works (genre), and being able to determine them to make more sense of their understanding in analyzing literary works
• Being able to make decision in implementing some basic concepts of literature in analyzing and intetrpreting literary works in terms of their genre, authors, histories, and societies in which the works were written and published
• Being responsible for choosing good or bad literary works for their individual and collective purposes in order to share their ideas of the nature of qualified and meaningful works of literature

• Barnet, Berman, Burto. 1989. Introduction to Literature: Prose, Poetry and Drama . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
• Knickerbocker, Renninger. 1964. Interpreting Literature . New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
• Gioia, Diana et al. 2001. Introduction to Literature: Poetry, Prose and Drama . London: Routledge.
• Wellek, Renne, Waren, Austen. 1964. Literary Theory . New York: CUP.
• Perrine, Laurence. 1990. Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense . New York: New York University Press