LIT 3024-0005 - Summer 2025 - Brower

LIT 3024: This course covers the distribution requirements in Diversity and Understanding the Genre. This class will look at the short story through the lens of craft, students will prioritize how to view writing as a disciplined craft. To do this, the student will be reading established authors from the late 19th century to 2024. Each week a student will present on one of the short stories in: “The Best American Short Stories of 2024”. As well as writing exercises, that will benefit the students writing skills, critical or creative. This course introduces students to the critical reading of short stories dating from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century. This course teaches students to identify tone, narration, form, theme, characterization, and other formal aspects of short fiction. There will be opportunities for creative assignments in regarding writing their own short stories. Students are encouraged to formulate their own interpretation of the works read, based on their developing ability to recognize the decisions each author has made in constructing the text.