(ENGL 312) Topics in Later British Literature
Overview of the history and concerns of British literature from 1789 to the present, including works from England, Ireland, and Scotland. Covers periods often referred to as the Romantic, Victorian, Modern, and Post-modern.
| Credit Hours | 3.0 Lecture |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | ENGL 251 |
| Offered | Winter |
| Programs | English (BA), English Education (BA), English Minor |
Course Learning Outcomes
- Learn about and engage in informed discourse and debate about the selected works, criticism, and theory in the British literature of the nineteenth and twentieth century, including works of the major writers such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Austen, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Dickens, Hardy, Yeats, Auden, T. S. Eliot, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Lessing etc.
- Comprehend and reflect upon the value and richness of those texts for the expansion of the intellect, for the testing of new knowledge, and for affirming the values of literature.
- Find, analyze, evaluate, and assimilate new information related to the field of British Victorian literature.
- Compose, revise, critique, and refine persuasive critical papers in edited English with topics related to the period.
- Understand, organize, integrate, and document successfully data from primary and secondary sources.
- Express in a clear, concise, and convincing manner in public and professional settings.