Students gain a foundation for appreciating the Bible's massive impact on subsequent literature. Major writers of the period including Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman. This course includes contemporary English language study introducing morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics and others. This course also explores issues of language acquisition, animal communication, language communities and dialects. This course offers the study of selections in various genres of the 20th century novel that lead students to a deeper appreciation and understanding of this century's influential novels and novelists.
Readings vary from quarter to quarter.
Representative Western literature which focuses on attitudes and values from the 18th century Age of Enlightenment through the ever-broadening cultural traditions of the 20th century. Literature of the Western world that exemplifies significant periods in the development of Western culture and reflects upon universal human aspirations dating from 1200 B.C. through the renaissance. This course is a literary study of dramatic literature that explores the major themes, conventions and historical trends of drama from ancient Greece to the present. Students will analyze, discuss and write about a diverse selection of plays, offering a variety of cultural experiences. Students will analyze, discuss and write about a variety of classic and contemporary stories.