ENG120 Business Literature

Elements of Literature and Common Workplace Themes

• Examine the elements of literature.
• Explain how the elements of literature are used in different genres.
• Examine how common workplace themes are explored in different literary genres.

Poetry and the Work Environment

• Analyze selected works of poetry in relation to their portrayal of the work environment.
• Examine the social significance of interactions in the workplace as illustrated through poetry.
• Assess perspectives of diversity, understanding, moral values, personal integrity, and social justice in the workplace as illustrated through poetry.
• Explain the significance of a work of poetry, relating its thematic emphasis to current trends in the workplace.
• Explain how literary elements specific to poetry shape reader response to themes portrayed in poetry.
• Apply a theme from a poetry selection to experiences in the workplace, explaining how the reading has enriched your understanding of that experience.

Fiction and the Work Environment

• Analyze selected works of fiction in relation to their portrayal of the work environment.
• Examine the social significance of interactions in the workplace as illustrated through fiction.
• Assess perspectives of diversity, understanding, moral values, personal integrity, and social justice in the workplace as illustrated through fiction.
• Explain the significance of a work of fiction, relating its thematic emphasis to current trends in the workplace.
• Explain how literary elements specific to fiction shape reader response to themes portrayed in fiction.
• Apply a theme from a fiction selection to experiences in the workplace, explaining how the reading has enriched your understanding of that experience.

Essays and the Work Environment

• Analyze selected essays in relation to their portrayal of the work environment.
• Examine the social significance of interactions in the workplace as illustrated through essays.
• Assess perspectives of diversity, understanding, moral values, personal integrity, and social justice in the workplace as illustrated through essays.
• Explain the significance of an essay, relating its thematic emphasis to current trends in the workplace.
• Explain how the literary elements that define essays shape reader response to themes portrayed in essays.
• Apply a theme from an essay selection to experiences in the workplace, explaining how the reading has enriched your understanding of that experience.

Literature, Values, and Social Change

• Compare the ways different authors treat particular themes, how treatment of these themes differs across cultures, and how these treatments change over time.
• Explore reasons specific literary types commonly portray certain workplace themes.
• Compare and contrast literary forms: fiction, nonfiction, short story, essay, and poetry in order to explain what each form offers to the work environment.
• Analyze how literature deals with social change.
• Evaluate which elements of social change literature addresses well and which not so well, and explain why this is the case.