First Year Experience Program

This course is designed to introduce you to representative works of fiction (by American writers as well as writers from other cultures) and to help you develop abilities to appreciate prose fiction competently and critique it effectively. As a class, we will converse with these writers on love, hate, fiction writing, and issues of broader social and cultural significance. We will seek to understand these writers and ourselves as individuals and to explore the common and exciting experiences of being human. We will focus on (re)production of fictional texts in historical contexts and issues (literary and aesthetic) pertinent to prose fiction as an art form.

1. Critical Reading/Critical thinking

2. Writing: Formal and informal; academic and creative

3. Information literacy: 1) how to locate information; 2) how to evaluate information critically; 3) how to use information effectively and responsibly

4. Primary research: Covered under ?Information Literacy?

5. Oral communication

6. Ethics: Covered under all above

1. Working in groups

2. Technology skills: Covered under the Academic Value of ?Information Literacy?

3. Organizational skills