At the end of the course, students, having read a substantial body of literature, 
will be able to discuss the assigned works (orally and in writing) with a 
considerable degree of critical sophistication, to read them with pleasure, to read 
and enjoy other works from the period, and to converse with fellow students about 
texts and issues related to the subject matter of the course.

The choice and sequence of topics will vary from instructor to instructor and 
semester to semester.  The topics will consist of selected works by various authors,
to be read outside of class and discussed in class, examined 
individually and comparatively in the context of the times and the circumstances of 
their composition.  Periodically during the semester, students will perform a number 
of graded tasks, including some combination of tests and out-of-class papers.

A possible series of readings might resemble this:

--Pope, Essay on Man
--essays by Swift and Johnson
--selected poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats
--selected poems by Tennyson, Browning, Barrett Browning, Arnold
--selected poems from Yeats
--one novel and several short stories by twentieth-century fiction writers, such as 
Woolf, Forster, Joyce, Hardy, etc.

Students in this course are expected to be familiar with and adhere to the University
of Georgia policy on academic honesty, according to which all violations of academic
honesty will be handled.  Students may participate in graded group projects at the 
instructor's discretion.