ENGL 2322 is a survey of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Eighteenth Century.  Reading selections are from open resources such as Wikisource and Project Gutenberg.  As a secondary resource, we have an OER text entitled British Literature I: Middle Ages to Eighteenth Century and Neoclassicism  by Bonnie J. Robinson and Laura Getty from the University of North Georgia.

COURSE RUBRIC AND NUMBER ENGL 2322
COURSE TITLE British Literature Survey: Anglo-Saxon to the 18th Century

I. Catalog Description
Examines a survey of the development of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Eighteenth Century. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions.

II. Course Objectives
Upon satisfactory completion of this course the student will be able to accomplish the following:
A. Engage in critical thinking skills, creative thinking, innovation and inquiry; demonstrate analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of information.
B. Explain the relationship between authors and their works in the context of their historical, social, and philosophical issues during the corresponding time periods.
C. Identify major trends of thought and literature in each period studied: i.e., the Anglo-Saxon, the Middle Ages, the Sixteenth Century, the Early Seventeenth Century, the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century.
D. Analyze and describe works of each literary figure studied.
E. Define literary terms and explain their practical application.
F. Demonstrate social responsibility skills including the ability to demonstrate intercultural competence, knowledge of civic responsibility, and/or the ability to engage effectively in local, regional, national, and/or global communities by better understanding the various people of the Western World and their approach to life as these elements are presented in the literature considered.
G. Demonstrate effective written, oral, and/or visual communication skills through responses and interpretations of literary works through the writing of critical essays, research papers, journals, or a combination of these.
H. Demonstrate personal responsibility skills including the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making.

III. THECB Learning Outcomes (ACGM)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will:
1. Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions.
2. Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods.
3. Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions.
4. Articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
5. Write research-based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct prose, using various critical approaches to literature.

The course aims to give students a positive experience reading and discussing classic works of literature that contribute to our culture.

This course was developed by James Gonzales of El Paso Community College and is based on public domain literature.

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