Millikin University English—Writing About Literature
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One of the hallmarks of an education at Millikin University is an engagement with Performance Learning, whereby students are given the opportunity to put their learning into direct practice. Those studying literature within the English Department at Millikin are therefore asked not just to study literature and literary scholarship, but to create it. These critical casebook websites are a prime example of those efforts. As a final project in EN202: Writing About Literature, students undertake the focused study of a single, novel-length text, utilizing the tools of literary theory that they have learned throughout the semester. The specific text chosen for this study is often a relatively new or under‐studied work, so that students are given the chance to contribute genuinely to the field of literary scholarship by joining (or even beginning) a new conversation about a literary work.
As part of this intensive study, students craft their own near‐professional critical analyses of the course text, but they are also asked to work in teams to gather or create resources that they feel would be useful to future scholars, teachers, or students working with the novel. All of this material is then gathered together as part of a critical casebook website, which is subsequently designed in collaboration with the students of the English Department's EN305: Web Publishing course.
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