THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC I (CL1025)

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Considers closely three moments when the practice of writing changed radically in response to historical and cultural processes, from Ancient Greece to 1800 (specific contents change each year). Investigates the forces that inform creative imagination and cultural production. Places those moments and those forces within a geographical and historical map of literary production, and introduces the tools of literary analysis.

Code: 
CL1025
Name: 
THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC I
Discipline: 
CL (Comparative Literature)
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Acquire a map of the history of literary and related works from the beginnings to the present.
  2. Become acquainted with elementary terminology, questions, practices and methods of the study of literature.
  3. Introduction to the study of the disciplines of Comparative Literature and Literary Studies.
  4. Learn essential facts about authors and works of these time periods.
  5. Local and Global Perspectives: Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures, and histories of local societies and the global issues to which these relate. (CCI LO1)
  6. Aesthetic Inquiry and Creative Expression: Students will engage with artistic or creative objects (e.g., visual art, theatrical works, film) in different media and from a range of cultural traditions. (CCI LO2)
  7. Exploring and Engaging Difference: Students will think critically about cultural and social difference; they will identify and understand power structures that determine hierarchies and inequalities that can relate to race, ethnicity, gender, nationhood, religion, or class. (CCI LO3)

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Fall 2023 CL1025 THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC I
Fall 2024 CL1025 THE WORLD, THE TEXT, AND THE CRITIC I

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