Course

Course Summary
Credit Type:
Course
ACE ID:
COLP-0015
Organization's ID:
ENG233
Organization:
Pearson
Location:
Classroom-based
Length:
8 weeks
Dates Offered:
Credit Recommendation & Competencies
Level Credits (SH) Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate 3 British Literature or Literature In English
Description

Objective:

The course objective is to survey English literature from the Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century; acquaint students with this literature through a process of reading, analyzing, interpreting, writing, and thinking critically about essays, stories, poetry, and plays from a broad spectrum of English literature; provide a glimpse into the changing dynamics of the latter 1400s to the early 1800s; consider English literature in a historical, social, and ideological context as those influences greatly impacted and shaped the writers and perceptions of the time period.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Apply a multi-step process for reading, responding to, and understanding literature
  • Evaluate the personal and social values of imaginative literature, values that are intellectual, emotional, and spiritual
  • Construct the characteristics of the genre of short fiction
  • Construct the characteristics of the genre of poetry
  • Create a basic vocabulary related to the discipline of literary analysis and interpretation in order to be able to read with comprehension and write with coherence in the discipline
  • Apply critical thinking through the reading and writing process
  • Appraise how language functions in literature in ways that differ from how language functions in expository prose

General Topics:

  • Study of authors, literature, and historical framework of English literature during a specific literary era
  • Identify literary functions and devices (such as association of literature and history, theme, topic, intent, authors' attitude, tone, mystery and morality plays, literary terminology)
  • Think critically about literature
  • Collaboratively think and write about literature
  • Prepare reading responses and summaries
  • Prepare creative and reactionary writings
  • Analyze and interpret literature
  • Perform literary research
  • Use proper citation methodologies
  • Write biographical sketches and essays on authors and literature
  • Use a rubric to critique one's own writing
Instruction & Assessment

Instructional Strategies:

  • Audio Visual Materials
  • Case Studies
  • Computer Based Training
  • Discussion
  • Learner Presentations
  • Lectures
  • Practical Exercises

Methods of Assessment:

  • Case Studies
  • Examinations
  • Performance Rubrics (Checklists)
  • Presentations
  • Quizzes
  • Written Papers

Minimum Passing Score:

70%
Supplemental Materials