British and Irish Literature from 1700 to the Present
ENGL 2320
3 hours
British and Irish Literature from 1700 to the Present
Analytical Thinking
Communication
Critical Thinking
Course Description
Writers typically include Pope, Swift, Johnson, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, one or two nineteenth-century novelists, Yeats, Woolf, and Joyce.
Athena Title
British Irish Lit Since 1700
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ENGL 2360H
Prerequisite
ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1102S
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall, spring and summer
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
By the conclusion of the course, students will be familiar with representative texts of major British, Irish, and postcolonial writers from 1700 to the present.
Students will contextualize and analyze examples from multiple literary genres including prose fiction, poetry, essays, and drama. They will practice analyzing literary form and thinking critically about literature and culture.
Students will practice engaging in collaborative discussion with their peers, in both small groups and full-class discussion. They will improve their ability to express their ideas cogently and effectively.
Students will improve their abilities to argue persuasively, use textual evidence, and write vigorous prose that adheres to conventional standards of grammar and usage.
Topical Outline
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
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.
General Education Core
CORE IV: Humanities and the Arts
Institutional Competencies
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
Communication
The ability to effectively develop, express, and exchange ideas in written, oral, or visual form.
Critical Thinking
The ability to pursue and comprehensively evaluate information before accepting or establishing a conclusion, decision, or action.
