EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Prerequisites & course information

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 in eighteenth-century literature and culture, including such writers as Dryden, Defoe, Swift and Pope. 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 in eighteenth-century literature and culture, including such writers as Dryden, Defoe, Swift and Pope. 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