This course introduces students to the study of significant works of literature in selected genres: poetry, drama, and prose. It thus involves selected readings, arranged by types. Emphasis is on discussion of and writing about characteristics and themes of the works.
Prerequisite Courses
Prerequisites
(LIBR 150 may be taken concurrently).
Competency
Behavioral and Social Understanding
Course Outcomes
After successfully completing the course, the learner will be able to:
- Exhibit knowledge about selected writers and their characteristic themes and techniques
- Delineate the periods of English literary history.
- Identify major and some minor authors of these periods.
- Define and distinguish literary genres of the period.
- Articulate themes and influences for selected works.
- Apply the terminology of literary study to interpret selected works.
- Respond to a work of literature as an expression of a culture’s values and compare those values with the student’s own.
- Enjoy a more creative, enlightened, and fulfilled life through an appreciation of literature’s social, cultural, political, and philosophical significance
- Use concepts and terminology particular to literary study to analyze and interpret imaginative literary works orally and in writing