Recent SemestersSpring 2027Class Size30 studentsCredits3PrerequisiteCompletion of ENGL 101. The course is designed to familiarize students with narrative fiction as a literary art form and as unique cultural expression. Students gain a critical awareness of the historical, social, and ideological issues which helped shape the ideas that inform the fiction selected, including literary and cultural movements such as Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Existentialism and/or Postmodernism. Readings are explored through, and enhanced by, class discussions, critical perspectives, and filmic interpretations, as students develop an academic appreciation of the vital role that narrative form has played in the human experience. (UC, CSU, AVC) (GE: IGETC Area 3B, CSU Area C2, AVC Area C) 216 2024-2025 AVC College Catalog English Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionThe course is designed to familiarize students with narrative fiction as a literary art form and as unique cultural expression. Students gain a critical awareness of the historical, social, and ideological issues which helped shape the ideas that inform the fiction selected, including literary and cultural movements such as Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, Existentialism and/or Postmodernism. Readings are explored through, and enhanced by, class discussions, critical perspectives, and filmic interpretations, as students develop an academic appreciation of the vital role that narrative form has played in the human experience. 