Undergraduate Catalog 2017-18 
    
    Apr 19, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2017-18 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENG 2161 - World Literature through Renaissance (L)

3 cr
This course investigates salient texts from a variety of different cultures, most of which are related to one another by origin or influence. The booklist changes each time the course is offered, and texts are chosen for the contributions they can make to students' knowledge of world literature and ability to contextualize the events, texts, and persons of today's world. Recent selections have included Plato's Symposium, the Bhagavad Gita, the Koran, Poems of Rumi, and Dante's Paradiso.
This course fulfills the Aesthetic Understanding or World Views Frame of Reference.
Prerequisite: ENG 1061 . Highly recommended: ENG 1310 .
Fall, even years