Course Description: ENGL 211: Western Literature in Translation, (F) (3). A survey of non-Anglophone Western literary works and forms from antiquity to the present. May focus on a form, region, or theme.
Course Objectives (CO)
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- Analyze and write critically about Western literature in clear, thesis-driven academic prose.
- Analyze how a text’s formal features (e.g., genre, structure, language) interact with content and historical/cultural context to produce meaning.
- Interpret values, beliefs, and theories expressed in literary texts and reflect on how these inform one’s personal and civic worldview.
- Compare and evaluate how themes, forms, and conventions develop from epic and myth through allegory, the early novel, and the lyric; synthesize insights about continuity and change in the Western tradition.
- Construct and defend interpretive claims in thesis-driven writing and academic discussion, demonstrating careful close reading and reasoned support. (Textual support is expected in formal writing; citations are not required in discussion posts.)
- Teacher: Hilary Parmentier