British Literature: Modern and Contemporary

General

Prefix

ENGL

Course Number

328

Course Level

Undergraduate

Department/Unit(s)

College/School

College of Liberal Arts

Description

Literary works, historical and cultural contexts, and criticism of novelists, poets, essayists, and playwrights of twentieth century Great Britain, such as Joyce, Woolf, Yeats, Eliot, Lessing, and Stoppard.

Credits

Min

4

Max

4

Repeatable

No

Goals and Diversity

MN Goal Course

No

Cultural Diversity

No

Learning Outcomes

Outcome

Identify and analyze different genres of canonical and non-canonical 20th-21st century British literary texts.

Outcome

Use literary terms appropriately when discussing and writing about modern and contemporary British literature.

Outcome

Identify and evaluate the connections between modern British literature and historical events such as the great wars, women's liberation movements, decolonization, etc.

Outcome

Formulate arguments about modern and contemporary British literature using close reading and theoretical approaches such as feminist criticism, postcolonial criticism and cultural studies.

Dependencies

Programs

ENGL328 is a completion requirement for: