Course Content and Outcomes Guides (CCOG)

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Effective Term:
Winter 2018 through Summer 2021

Course Number:
ENG 107
Course Title:
Introduction to World Literature (Up to 16th-Century)
Credit Hours:
4
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Introduces a broad spectrum of literature in translation that begins in antiquity and concludes at the dawn of the Renaissance. Includes works of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. Examines the uniqueness and interconnectedness of literature from a variety of worldwide traditions, both western and non-western. The series (ENG 107-108) does not have to be taken in sequence. Audit available.

Addendum to Course Description

Instructors may choose an anthology, individual works, or both.  This course meets the requirements of a survey, emphasizing breadth over depth.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon completion of the course students should be able to:

1. Identify and discuss the ways in which literary texts from different cultures and time periods up to the 16th-century are interconnected.

2. Analyze the effects of war, religion, technology, economic development, racism, and culture on world literature from antiquity up to the 16th-century.

3. Compare and discuss important similarities and differences between the various literary forms, periods, and histories in both western and nonwestern literatures up to the 16th-century.

4. Write clear, focused, coherent essays about literature for an academic audience, using standard English conventions of grammar and style.

Integrative Learning

Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.

Course Activities and Design

Instructors are free to include any assortment of activities to enhance student enjoyment and learning, including lectures, small-group discussions, writing, film viewings, individual and/or class projects, attending a dramatic performance as a class, research, etc.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Assessment tools may include--

 reading journals

class presentations

formal papers

research

group projects

study questions

in-class writing

exams 

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

explication of individual works

comparison of works

literary vocabulary  

genres 

literary periods, canons, cultures

analysis of individual works

synthesis of knowledge about literature as a global phenomenon

variety of styles

literary themes unique to world literature

 Suggested Texts:

 Instructors may choose to work exclusively with a single anthology or to include individual works as well.  The following list shows only a few examples of what is possible for an English 107 class.

 The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces: Expanded Edition in One Volume (includes new selections from Asia and Africa).

 The Longman Anthology of World Literature (Volume 1).

 The Bedford Anthology of World Literature (Package One).

 Gilgamesh: A New Translation.  Stephen Mitchell. 

 The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics).  A.S. Byat.

 The Selected Poems of T’ao Ch’en (Copper Canyon).  David Hinton.

 Sappho: A New Translation.  Mary Barnard.

 Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali.  D.T. Niane.