This course offers an introduction to literature organized around works by writers from outside the United States.  Broadly speaking, students will learn how to read, analyze, write about, and enjoy literature as well as study its historical and cultural contexts and grow by learning about literature of other cultures.  More specifically, this semester we will explore poems, short stories, novels, and plays from the modern and contemporary world; we will be focusing on the role of literature as an expression of and/or a challenge to society’s values as well as the ways in which the modern experience demands new forms of representation and new ways of formulating truth, subjectivity, agency, and identity.

  
As a Humanities course, ENG 231 cultivates knowledge, skills, and habits of mind for meaningful living and wise choices.  Literature and arts, through artistic forms, insist that "attention must be paid," in playwright Arthur Miller's words, to particular individuals and creative works.  Enduring works of art involve us in experiences, express the complexity and diversity of our world, and interpret and question cultures and values.  They engage our emotions and our intellects, deepen our self-awareness, connect us with artists and creation, stimulate our sense of beauty and wonder, and challenge us to think critically, to question, to respect others, to care, and to act.

 

For this course, I:

• researched pedagogy and praxis;
• composed online curriculum, syllabus, and assignments;
• designed class Blackboard site and activities;
• instructed the course

 

Syllabus