LIT 221 - British Literature: Enlightenment to Romantic

4 Credit(s)

Students will investigate British literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which may include the study of authors such as Alexander Pope, Samuel Richardson, Fanny Burney, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, and Samuel Coleridge. Students will learn to interpret and situate literature in a national context while describing the impact of national literature on a culture and history and vice versa. Experiential learning activities may include group discussions, creative and/or analytical writing, and research practice. Students will show an understanding of the materials through a variety of activities including, but not limited to, critical and/or creative written assignments, class discussion, and quizzes/examinations.

Lit/Art.
Prerequisite(s): WRIT 101.
(Spring/even-numbered years)