ENGL& 226 - British Literature I

Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
An introduction to some of the English texts that launched the West’s rich literacy traditions, starting over 1000 years ago and covering up to the mid-20th century. Sampling essays, poems, historical texts, stories, memoirs, speeches, plays, and a novel, the course features a wide variety of works from authors representing the British Isles including England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Formerly: ENGL 246.
Course Outcomes:

Identify the major characteristics of British literature from 700-1945 C.E.
Competently employ literary terminology.
Appraise the ways which the English language has evolved over the centuries and why it works as it does today.
Evaluate the ways that literature’s insights can be relevant culturally and personally.
Apply several different literary critical approaches to class texts.
Critique the literature by presenting and clarifying opinions and responses to reading through use of textual evidence and other rhetorical devices.

Course Attribute(s): Humanities