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ENGL 241

LITERATURE AND CULTURE I: TO THE 18TH CENTURY

3 credits.

What is a person, a home, a nation, a world? What we now call "English literature" begins with these questions, imagining a cosmos filled with gods and heroes, liars and thieves, angels and demons, dragons and dungeons, whores and witches, drunken stupor and religious ecstasy. Authors crafted answers to these questions using technologies of writing from parchment to the printing press, and genres old and new, from epic and romance to drama and the sonnet. Develops skills of critical reading and writing that are essential to majors and non-majors alike.

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Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critique key themes, styles and issues in English literature and culture up to the eighteenth century. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Leverage writing as a mode of learning and means of conveying critical analysis. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critique key themes, styles and issues in English literature and culture up to the eighteenth century. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Leverage writing as a mode of learning and means of conveying critical analysis. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Undergraduate

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