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WSCC 2025-2026 Catalog 
    
WSCC 2025-2026 Catalog

LIT 250 - Introduction to Shakespeare


Offered FL, WI
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)
Introduction to the art of Shakespeare through an examination of five to seven plays.

Student Learning Outcomes:
  • Describe Shakespeare’s use of language in several of his major plays including his use of verse, prose, and sound and literary devices
  • Identify major theams at work in several of Shakespeare’s major plays and relate these ideas to both Shakespeare’s and our own times
  • Discuss character development in several of Shakespeare’s major plays
  • Analyze the dramatic structure in several of Shakespeare’s major plays