ENG 2320 - Methods in Cultural Research

Credits: 3 hrs

This course presents students with contemporary research strategies for investigating cultural questions using interdisciplinary scholarship. Students will select a text of their choosing (a short story, poem, album, film, speech, etc) that will guide their individual research throughout the semester. Students should expect to develop, pursue, and present the results of a variety of research questions over the course of the term. They will use library resources first to investigate their texts’ cultural and historical contexts, then to explore scholarship that relates to key questions and concepts their texts introduce. Thus, the course will give students students the tools noth to pursue academic research with confidence and o consider how cultural objects relate to their world.
Pre-requisite(s): ENG 1305 or ENG 1315
General Education Designation: Yes
Student Learning Outcome: Information Literacy