The amount of time necessary to complete the course successfully will vary from student to student. I recommend, ideally, 15 hours a week, but 10-12 hours a week is reasonable time commitment for most students.

Please be aware that literary texts should be read at least twice, and, particularly if you are writing assignments on them, 3 or 4 times with care in order to communicate not only what the story or poem or play is about, but how the text tells its story or communicates its perspective, and why its style or diction or point of view alters conventional ways of seeing the world and our place in it.  In short, you should not only be able to paraphrase the text, but to use literary vocabulary to describe its most significant features.  Reading a text more than once allows you to build on or challenge first and hasty impressions; the correct use of literary terms adds depth, substance, and nuance to your interpretation and shows that you respect the literariness of the text. 

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