Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to selected works. Emphasis is placed on understanding literary themes, such as initiation, conformity, and rebellion, from historical, critical, and universal perspectives. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to selected works relating to universal themes. Emphasis is placed on understanding literary themes, such as existentialism, love, hate, and death, from historical, critical, and universal perspectives. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to selected works relating to universal themes.
Emphasis is placed on literary and cultural trends of selected texts.
Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to the literature. Emphasis is placed on the historical and cultural contexts, themes, aesthetic features of individual works, and biographical backgrounds of the authors. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and discuss selected works. Emphasis is placed on historical and cultural context, themes, literary traditions, and backgrounds of the authors. Upon completion, students should be able to interpret, analyze, and respond to selected texts.