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2024-2025 Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Catalog

ENG 212 - World Literature 2

3 credit hours - Three hours weekly; one term.
This course meets the Arts & Humanities General Education Requirement. 

Study literature from Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, from the 18th century to the present. Read selections from works written in the Neoclassical, Romantic, and Realistic periods as well as representative works of modern literature.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 / ENG 101A  or permission of the department chair. ENG 211  or ENG 211H  is not a prerequisite.

Crosslisted: Also offered as ENG 212H ; credit is not given for both ENG 212 and ENG 212H .

Location(s) Typically Offered: Arnold Main Campus (MC) and Online (OL)

Term(s) Typically Offered: Spring

Course Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Analyze orally and in writing representative texts of world literature from the 17th century to modern times;
  2. Discuss and write about common themes in representative texts of this period;
  3. Discuss and write about distinct national and cultural values and perspectives reflected in representative texts of this period;
  4. Discuss and write about the relationship of representative texts of this period to their intellectual, social, and cultural backgrounds;
  5. Discuss and write about changes and developments in literary forms and conventions as reflected in representative texts of this period.