Eng 202 Reflection

Before ENG 202, which was my first college-level English class, my general conception of “English” as an academic discipline was different. For instance, prior to this my general conception of “English” essentially revolved around reading and writing comprehension skills. In fact, in high school I spent a lot of time analyzing different forms of text like novels, poems, and photos, and then writing about them. When analyzing these texts the teacher had us focus more on theme, tone, and figurative language than anything else. Besides this there were a few times that we focused on the author’s writing style. After analyzing these texts, it was sometimes required of us to write a paper to show that we understood the text and the ideas in it.
From my experience in ENG 202 I feel that this class shifted in a different direction. While we still analyzed texts the way we did it changed. Instead of focusing on theme, tone, and figurative language like I did in high school we focused on the different critical lenses and its application in works. Furthermore, this class differed in what texts it analyzed. Incorporated into ENG 202 wasn’t just traditional text but multimedia, which you don’t necessarily witness in high school. For example, there was a combination of articles, poems, images, music lyrics, videos, and software platforms …show more content…
Cultural studies focuses on questions of race, gender, and power and so using these theories a creative writing piece can be formed. In fact, one can make a song, poem, or novel inspired from one of these theories: psychoanalytic theory, feminist theory, queer theory, marxist theory, historical criticism, postcolonial and critical race theory, and reader response theory, and have their work tailored to it. Moreover, that person can also create plots and characters that portray that specific theory or a combination of