REQUIRED COURSE TEXT for Spring 2007:

Davis, Paul, and others, ed.  Western Literature in a World Context. Vol. 2:
         The Enlightenment through the Present. New York: St. Martin’s Press,
         1995. (Available for purchase from COCC Bookstore: https://web.cocc.edu/textsales/)

"However, I am cheered by a vital awareness of WORLD LITERATURE
as of a single huge heart, beating out the cares and troubles of our world,
albeit presented and perceived differently in each of its corners."
--Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn, 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature
URL: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/solzhenitsyn-lecture.html
Solzhenitsyn (U.S.S.R., b. 1918) was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature
"for the ethical force with which he has pursued
the indispensable traditions of Russian literature"
URL: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1970/index.html
Learn more about the Nobel Prize in Literature (2007):
URL: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/
Nobel Prize Home Page URL: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/

What will you learn in English 109? 
Course Description and  Learning Outcomes:

ENG 109 - Western World Literature: Modern
Survey of representative texts, authors, and genres from the late 18^th century to the present; explores Modern Western world literary movements and their historical-intellectual contexts, from romanticism and realism to post-colonialism and contemporary global trends. Need not be taken in sequence. Recommended Preparation: College entry-level reading and writing skills.

ENG 109 Course Learning Outcomes:

A. Knowledge of Western World Literature

1.  Identify the timeframes, significant intellectual trends and cultural values, and favored literary genres of major Western literary-historical periods of the late 18^th to the early 21^st centuries
(for example, Romanticism, Realism, Symbolism, Aestheticism, Modernism, Absurdist and Existential literature, Magical Realism, Post-Modernism, Feminism, Colonialism and Post-Colonialism, and/or contemporary global trends).

2.  Identify major writers and their works representative of Modern Western literary-historical periods.

3. Explain and illustrate how these writers and works embody significant characteristics of these literary-historical periods.

4. Trace major developments in Western literature over time, by identifying significant elements of continuity and change in representative works from different Western literary-historical periods.

B. Literary Analysis and Interpretation

5.  Develop persuasive individual interpretations of literature from literary-historical periods of Modern Western literature based on close reading, using pertinent evidence from the literary texts.

6.  Apply knowledge of Modern Western literary history, cultures, genres, and authors, as well as different literary critical approaches, to individual and comparative analysis of literary texts.

7. Use effective oral and written communication to express literary analyses and interpretations, developed both independently and collaboratively.

8.  Avoid plagiarism by citing course and any outside primary and secondary sources using an acceptable academic documentation style [i.e. MLA].

"If in my life I have developed any ability to understand those who are other to me,
other in race or gender or culture or sexual preference,
a good deal of my training in empathy must have come from the practice
 fiction and poetry have given me in taking on other selves, other lives."
--David H. Richter, Falling into Theory, 1994