FIRSTBRIDGE IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE (CL1099)

Information Literacy: Students will comprehend how information is produced and valued in order to discover, evaluate, use, and create information and knowledge effectively and ethically. In FirstBridge, students will demonstrate the conversational nature of scholarship, and recognize their potential role and responsibilities as contributors to that conversation. For each discipline taught in FirstBridge, students will identify reference works, journals, databases and/or major works in history, in order to start effective research in the field.

Life at University: Students will acquire the study skills, time management, and interpersonal skills needed to meet the demands of university-level academic work at a Liberal Arts College individually or as a team. Students will value the multiple meanings of place through experiential learning at AUP and beyond in the Parisian or global context.

Students will read literary works from different genres and places attentively.

Students will formulate remarks on which words or phrases create the force of passages from such texts.

Students will articulate the relationship between word choice and impact on the reader.

Students will identify ways that concepts explored in films and in creative texts are communicated differently.

Students will relate choice of medium to purpose and effect of message.

Students will identify a message that they think needs to be more widely or effectively heard.

Students will explain which medium they think is best adapted to conveying the message in question.