Topics in World Literature

All third-year English courses share the following features:

1. Students are presumed to have had first-year level instruction and experience in writing critical essays on literary subjects.
2. Students are required to read in the course subject area beyond the texts assigned by the instructor.
3. Students are required to incorporate into their oral and written coursework secondary source materials, which may include biographical information, literary criticism or theory, unassigned texts by the author under study, relevant cultural or intellectual history, or other aesthetic works such as music or visual art.

Readings and topics vary with each instructor’s presentation of a course, but all course materials are consistent with the objectives and outcomes for this course.

Additionally, in English 3160,

1. students will examine a topic or group of related topics, such as concepts of identity, nation, revolution, migration, time or censorship, in a selection of literature that largely comes from outside the British Isles and Anglo-North America: for example, they may examine political revolution in French and Russian literature, or gender and class in Indian literature.
2. students may focus on one literature (for instance, Chinese) or on two or more literatures (for instance, a comparison of Chinese and Indonesian literatures).
3. the works chosen may be written originally in English or may be studied in translation.
4. students will learn about some of the cultural and historical contexts of the literature.