LIT 213 - World Literature

Offered as needed
Lecture- 3
3 credit hrs/3 contact hrs
Prerequisite: ENG 111 - English Composition I with “C” or better (2.0 out of a 4.0 scale)
Survey of world’s literary traditions from multi‐cultural perspectives. Analysis and interpretation of narrative and lyric poetry; fiction; creative non‐fiction; drama; and oral tradition works.

Student Learning Outcomes:

Identify the salient characteristics of significant literary genres common to all cultures and times periods.
Compare and contrast works of literature from varying cultures and times in terms of their significant themes, values, and cosmologies.
Explain verbally and in writing how environment, politics, religion, cosmological view, cultural assumptions, etc., helped shape significant works of world literature.
Analyze how the form and content of particular works of world literature reflect cultural assumptions, values, aesthetics, historical contexts, and themes.
Exhibit ethical & professional behavior in attendance, conduct, assignment completion, collaboration, work with source material, and constructive peer feedback.