Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

Spring 2024

Course Description

This course engages literature across national regions and geographical borders, literary genres, and forms of media to explore the human condition. Our study of world literature will anchor each reading in historical and cultural context to amplify our critical engagement with perspectives, voices, aesthetic traditions from people and places outside of the United States. Ultimately, this course will help students develop and refine analytical and close reading skills, understand (literary) cultural production within a global context, and take into account the interconnectedness of culture, politics, and power. Crosslisted with ENG 141.

Student Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to do the following: 1. Interpret selected texts from a variety of literary forms (including poetry and prose), time periods, cultures, and regions, and from at least three different national/linguistic traditions 2. Identify and use critical concepts related specifically to issues of translation, literary and cultural transmission, editorial practice, and voice 3. Articulate an understanding of the ways in which literature is situated historically, culturally, and linguistically

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