Introduction to Literary Studies
Lectures Description Online Test Topic 1: What is Literary Studies? Topic 2: Introduction to Literature Topic 3: English Literature: 1200 BC-Present Overview
Code: ELL102 Course Description: This course introduces literature as cultural and historical phenomena. This entails a study of history of various periods of English Literature from Renaissance to the present. The course also, very briefly, touches upon different theoretical approaches to literature to introduce the student to literary critique and evaluation. A general understanding of literary theory as a broad field of philosophical concepts and principles is also crucial to the understanding of literary piece.
Learning Outcomes Having completed this course you should be able to: ✓ study the history and practice of English as a scholarly discipline. ✓ study the history and development of each genre through excerpts of literary texts. ✓ do close reading of texts and analyze them with different critical frameworks. ✓ analyze …
