ENGL 714 (01) - Critical Skills

Critical Skills

Durham Liberal Arts::English
Credits: 4.0
Class Size: 25 
Term:  Fall 2025 - Full Term (08/25/2025 - 12/08/2025)
CRN:  13163
Grade Mode:  Letter Grading
This course provides training in critical analysis of various texts (literature, film, and media). Criticism is often applied to the hot-button issues of the day. We ask questions like: How does gender shape the way we read? How to interpret texts in a globalized world? Does the truth matter? This course satisfies a post-1800 literature requirement for English Department majors; may be taken for elective credit by English Teaching Majors.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 419
Equivalent(s):  ENGL 617
Classes not allowed in section: Freshman
Attributes:  Writing Intensive Course
Instructors:  Petar Ramadanovic

Times & Locations

Start Date End Date Days Time Location
8/25/2025 12/8/2025 MW 11:10am - 12:30pm HS 108

Additional Course Details:

ENGL 714 -- Fall 2025 Course details

Unique at UNH, class on critical thinking. Learn the ways of deep textual analysis reading Flannery O’Connor, Joseph Conrad, Sigmund Freud, Hans George Gadamer, and others.

  • This class is required for ENGLISH LITERATURE Majors.
  • This course may be taken for Capstone credit by general ENGLISH majors following requirement guidelines in place prior to Fall 2023, pending Instructor approval. Fill out a Capstone Declaration form (available in the main English office, Ham Smith 230F) if you wish to declare it as Capstone. 
  • This course counts as a Post-1800 Literature requirement for ENGLISH: TBD Majors. 
  • This course counts as one of two Literature courses taken at the 600/700 level for ENGLISH TEACHING majors. 
  • This course may satisfy the CAPSTONE requirement for ENGISH/JOLURNALISM majors OR it may count as 'one additional 500/600/700 level' English course for ENGLISH JOURNALISM majors. If you wish to count this course as your Journalism Capstone please speak to your advisor and pick up a Capstone Declaration form in the English Department main office (HS 230F).