Overview
Description
Undergraduate seminar on one or two authors, e.g., Pope and Boswell; Johnson and Dryden.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Attributes
StandardRepeatable up to 6 credits
Learning Outcomes
- write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
- analyze literary works in their cultural and historical contexts.
- display working knowledge of the canon of the relevant major British author(s), including an understanding of the traditions in which the author(s) operated and of the contributions made by the author(s).
- analyze and discuss the generic and formal features of the key texts of the relevant author(s), and will be able to explain the relationship between those texts and the contexts in which they were written.
- describe various debates or theories relating to the major British author(s) being studied, and will be able to demonstrate familiarity with reception history of the author(s) as well as the current state of scholarship about the author(s).