ENGL& 226 British Literature I (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Formerly ENGL 211 - CCN
Course Description
A study of representative works of literature written in the British Empire from the Middle Ages into the sixteenth century.
Course Content
A. Representative works of several genres: (e.g. fiction, poetry, drama, essays)
B. Trends or movements in literary art (e.g. evolution of the English language, including the movement from the oral to the literary tradition.)
C. Contexts that shape the literature: (e.g., historical, mythological, religious, social, political)
D. Contemporary relevance of the literature
Student Outcomes
1. Read and interpret representative works of literature in characteristic genres (e.g. fiction, poetry, drama, essays) in order to understand how genre cocreates meaning.
2. Analyze a work of literature according to specific criteria, in order to understand the social and historical contexts (e.g. evolution of the English language, including the movement from the oral to the literary tradition).
3. Explain how cultural history helped to shape literary genres and trends and how these literary genres and trends also helped to shape cultural history.
4. Analyze the representation of diverse, underrepresented groups in the literature in order to examine how identities/positionalities impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
5. Critically engage the course content through writing a literary analysis essay.
6. Critically engage the course content through research in the discipline.
7. Demonstrate an awareness of how the literature and its contexts are relevant to contemporary people, issues, and problems in order to understand the global nature of this literature.
Degree Outcomes
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Formal writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses
B. Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions
C. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting, paraphrase and summary
D. Group discussions and classroom activities
E. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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