ENG 3225: Critical Practice (2026-2027)

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Introduces students to the practice of reading literary and cultural texts through a variety of interpretive lenses that deepen our understanding and appreciation for how literature works, and how it works on us. Using a small set of core texts (which may vary by instructor), the course explores how texts open themselves to us differently depending on a critic’s perspective and investigative approach. Critical methods applied may include psychological criticism, New Historicism, reader-response, social/Marxist theory, gender and feminist theory, race theory, postcolonialism, deconstruction, cultural criticism, eco-criticism, etc.