ENGL 239 World Literature (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
This course offers a cross-genre exploration of global literatures, particularly from non-English speaking, translated works worldwide.
Course Content
A. Transnational positionality and intersectionality
B. Global socio-political contexts (e.g. geographical, political, historical, social) in literary works
C. Analysis of text, emphasizing content, theme, and critical approaches to the study of literature
D. Contextual devices (e.g. imagery, symbols, metaphors, and other writerly devices) and other cultural markers within literary works
E. Genre and cross-genre approaches
F. Cultural imagery, themes, ideas, and contexts in selected works.
G. Politics of translation, marketing, censorship, and publication for global writers
Student Outcomes
1. Analyze how positionality and intersectionality (particularly race, gender, and sexuality) shape or inflect the works of global writers.
2. Analyze the global social, historical, and economic contexts in selected literary works. Identify how imagery, symbols, metaphors, and other devices, literary or otherwise, are utilized to convey meaning.
3. Examine how global writers use genre and cross-genre to create new meanings.
4. Distinguish how images, themes, and ideas are shaped by—and help shape—the cultures from which they originate.
5. Examine how global, transnational, and intercultural relations impact writers and their works.
6. Explore how cultural stereotypes are created, reinforced, and transgressed in global literature.
Degree Outcomes
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.
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.
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, individual, multimedia
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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