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ENGL 227 World Literature II

In this course, students read, analyze, and research diverse and significant literary texts from the Renaissance to the present in the context of their cultural values and historical periods and apply basic literary terms, concepts, and critical strategies while learning to appreciate the conventions of a variety of genres. This course is writing intensive.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENGL 121

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

  1. Identify and apply literary terms, concepts, critical strategies for literary analysis, and stylistic characteristics in the texts studied.
  2. Pose questions about, analyze, and interpret texts according to themes that reflect the human condition such as economic, ethical, historical, personal, political, and/or social issues.
  3. Analyze the ways in which world literature reflects broad and diverse intellectual, social, historical, and multicultural contexts and perspectives to challenge or investigate new or divergent viewpoints.
  4. Analyze how global literary comparisons illuminate human experiences, values, and challenges and thus have relevance to today's world.
  5. Use evidence from literary texts and secondary texts for effective literary analysis.
  6. Write analytically about literary works, using appropriate research and documentation.
  7. Critically assess and communicate an understanding of the literature, in meaning and craft, and exchange these ideas with others.

Course Objectives

  1. Identify and apply literary terms, concepts, critical strategies for literary analysis, and stylistic characteristics in the texts studied.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

    Creative Process

    • CP1

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

    Describe the aesthetic and structural characteristics of literature from different genres, literary periods, and perspectives.

  2. Pose questions about, analyze, and interpret texts according to themes that reflect the human condition such as economic, ethical, historical, personal, political, and/or social issues.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

    Creative Process

    • CP3

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

    Explain how literature reflects the human condition, experience, values, and ethical questions.

  3. Analyze the ways in which world literature reflects broad and diverse intellectual, social, historical, and multicultural contexts and perspectives to challenge or investigate new or divergent viewpoints.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

    Creative Process

    • CP2

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

    Analyze literature in light of historical and cultural contexts.

  4. Analyze how global literary comparisons illuminate human experiences, values, and challenges and thus have relevance to today's world.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Creative Process and Humanistic Inquiry Rubric

    Creative Process

    • CP4

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

    Explain how literature reflects the human condition, experience, values, and ethical questions.

  5. Use evidence from literary texts and secondary texts for effective literary analysis.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Writing Rubric

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

    Compose and present creative and original projects of literary analysis supported by academic sources and documentation.

  6. Write analytically about literary works, using appropriate research and documentation.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Writing Rubric

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

    Compose and present creative and original projects of literary analysis supported by academic sources and documentation.

  7. Critically assess and communicate an understanding of the literature, in meaning and craft, and exchange these ideas with others.

    Learning Activity Artifact

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Writing Assignment: Literary Analysis

    Procedure for Assessing Student Learning

    • Other (please fill out box below)
    • Writing Rubric

    Program Goal(s)

    Degree: English - A.A. Degree (Transfer)

    Compose and present creative and original projects of literary analysis supported by academic sources and documentation.