- To familiarize you with the
development of British Literature
from
its earliest roots (ca. 700 AD) to the Enlightenment (ca. 1750).
- To make you aware of changes in literary language,
genres,
styles, and content throughout the period.
- To familiarize you with some of the enduringly (or at
least currently) significant writers of the period.
- To reveal how this literature developed out of the
changing
social, political, religious, and cultural conditions in Britain
as these evolved over the centuries.
- To provide experience in the critical analysis of
literature
and the close study of the uses of language.
- To develop your ability to present a carefully
considered
position on some critical issue and to support it by appropriate
references to the text.
General Education Goals: Literature
Category
The Literature Category. This category develops
students'
capacity
to take delight in the richness of the language of the creative
literary
imagination. Emphasis is placed on understanding, interpreting, and
critiquing selected literary texts.
Objectives for
the Category
- Increased ability to understand and appreciate the
nature and
uses of language.
- Increased awareness of
the
historical,
cultural, spiritual, and personal contexts for literature.
- Increased
appreciation of the opportunities for lifelong learning afforded
by reading and thinking about literary texts.
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