Major Poets
Overview
Selected literary texts (see sample list).
Selected secondary source materials:
- autobiographical material
- biography
- literary criticism and theory
- cultural and intellectual history
- other arts (music, fine arts, film, etc.)
- lecture/discussion
- interviews
- group work
- instructor feedback on students’ written work
A minimum of 15% must be in-class paragraphs or essays.
A minimum of four evaluations, two of which must be academic essays with a combined value of at least 40% of the course grade.
Writing Competency Bar:
A student must achieve a grade of C- or better upon first submission of at least one required essay in order to achieve a grade of better than P in any university-transfer English course.
The successful student should be able to
- recognize the significance of the literary and non-literary or cultural context of a work being studied, such as biographical, historical, mythological, and philosophical contexts;
- read critically secondary sources, such as criticism and other texts by the same author, as an aid to comprehending the primary text being studied;
- read critically and independently works or aspects of works not discussed in class;
- discern both continuity and change within the body of poetry written in English; and
- formulate a thesis on a given subject in one or more specific works and develop this, using suitable textual evidence.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students
Sample reading list:
- Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience
- Plath, Ariel
- Yeats, Selected Poetry
Requisites
Prerequisites
Any TWO university-transfer first-year English literature courses, or ONE university-transfer first-year English literature course and ONE university-transfer first-year Creative Writing or English writing course.
Corequisites
No corequisite courses.
Equivalencies
No equivalent courses.
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca
| Institution | Transfer details for ENGL 2314 |
|---|---|
| Thompson Rivers University (TRU) | TRU ENGL 2XXX (3) |