ENGL 2032 - British Literature: Romantic to Present

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture None Lab None
Course Description: This college literature course intended for all students will analyze and explore British Literature from 1800 to the present. Typical authors may include works by Mary Shelley, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Shaw, and Eliot.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts, 8 Global Perspective

Prerequisite(s): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940  with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051  with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: ENGL 1020   with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021  with a grade of C or higher.

Major Content

1. British Literature: Romantic to Present
2. Read some of the significant works written during the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
3. Discuss, examine, and compare examples of British literature
4. Investigate social, political, and economic issues which have helped to shape contemporary societies.

1. Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in British Literature: Romantic to Present.
2. Analyze basic literary elements in works studied.
3. Analyze international problems seen through the readings in British Literature from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries that illustrate cultural, economic, and political differences affecting their solutions.
4. Analyze the roles and responsibilities of a world citizen based on readings in British literature since 1800.
5. Analyze those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.
6. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in British Literature from the Romantic period to the present.
7. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences found in British literature since 1800.
8. Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements as seen in 19th, 20th, and 21st century British Literature which influence relations of states and societies, in their historical and contemporary dimensions.
9. Respond critically to works in British Literature from 1800 to the present.

06. 02. Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.

06. 03. Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.

06. 05. Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.
Competency 2 (7-10)
08. 01. Describe and analyze political, economic, and cultural elements which influence relations of states and societies in their historical and contemporary dimensions.

08. 02. Demonstrate knowledge of cultural, social, religious and linguistic differences.

08. 03. Analyze specific international problems, illustrating the cultural, economic, and political differences that affect their solution.

08. 04. Understand the role of a world citizen and the responsibility world citizens share for their common global future.

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