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Oct 31, 2024
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ENG 251 Western World Literature I Lecture: 3 Lab: 0 Clinic: 0 Credits: 3 This course provides a survey of selected European works from the Classical period through the Renaissance. Emphasis is placed on historical background, cultural context, and literary analysis of selected prose, poetry, and drama. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to selected works.
This course has been approved for transfer under the CAA as a general education course in Humanities/Fine Arts.
Pre-requisite(s): C or better in ENG 112, ENG 113, or ENG 114. Course is typically offered in Fall (when offered). Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) At the completion of the course, the students should be able to do the following:
- Analyze characteristic elements of a particular culture as reflected in its literature.
- Differentiate major literary movements of respective periods in selected works.
- Evaluate the impact of relevant cultural historical, socio-economic and intellectual factors as forces shaping literature of the periods studied. Evaluate the contributions of a culture to a specific genre.
- Apply the basic principles of literary analysis to works studied.
- Apply appropriate literary terminology.
- Compare similarities in two or more works by the same author or two or more works by different authors in any of the following as assigned: subject matter, theme, structure, characterization, language and style, literary mode, among others.
- Summarize contributions of major writers to their respective periods.
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