COLEGIO DE CALUMPIT

Mac Arthur Highway, Iba O'Este, Calumpit, Bulacan

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College Department

Course Syllabus

Course Title: LITERARY CRITICISM

Course Code: MC118
No. of Units: 3 units
Course Description:
This is a 3-unit course which mainly focuses on the study and use of different literary theories to write
critiques on selections from various literary genres. This also aims to identify the history and concepts of those
various literary theories so students may be able to write informed theory-based critiques of various literary
pieces. It is meant to make students gain an appreciation of critiquing literary texts in a deeper sense.

Course Outline:

Week 1: Orientation/Course Introduction

Week 2: Structuralist Criticism: Prose/Fiction
- Elements of Fiction
- Responding to Fiction
Week 3: Structuralist Criticism: Poetry
- Elements of Poetry
- Analyzing Poetry
Week 4: Structuralist Criticism: Plays/Drama
- Elements of Drama
- Analyzing Drama
Week 5: Structuralist Criticism: Essay
- Types of Essay
- Analyzing Essays
Week 6: PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
Week 7: Feminist Criticism: Background and concepts of feminism
Week 8: Feminist Criticism: Reading Feminist Works and Writing Critiques using Feminist Criticism
Week 9: Marxist Criticism: Background and Concepts of Marxism
Week 10: Marxist Criticism: Reading and critiquing Marxist Literature
Week 11: Marxist Criticism: Marxist Understanding of Literature
Week 12: MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Week 13: Deconstructive Criticism
Week 14: New Historical Criticism
Week 15: Post-Modern Criticism
Week 16: Psychoanalytic Criticism
- Background and concepts of psychoanalytic theory
- Critiquing literature using psychoanalytic criticism
Week 17: Reader-Response Criticism
- Background and concepts of Reader-Response Criticism
- Critiquing literature using Reader-Response Criticism
Week 18: FINAL EXAMINATION

Course Requirements:
1. Regular quizzes
2. Term Projects
3. Group Presentations
4. Oral Recitation
5. Major Exams

Grading System
25% Prelims
25% Midterms
25% Finals
25% Class Standing

Prepared by:
Rodelyn B. Tempra, LPT