ENG 109 Western World Lit: Modern

Outcomes

Recognize how literature helps in understanding the human condition in the Romantic, Realist, and Modern eras in Western Culture. Understand and explain how various works reflect the ideas of the Romantic, Realist, and Modern eras in Western Culture. Interpret the literature of these through critical reading. Gain understanding of literature through close reading of selected works poetry, plays, stories, novellas, and essays. Examine elements of the works plots, characterization, setting, symbolism, metaphor, voice, theme, poetic characteristics as they interpret each authors works while taking into account the cultural, historical and socialcontex of the work. Compare and contrast the literary elements and strategies among different writers, ages, and cultures. Evaluate the ideas, beliefs, values and aesthetics of the works and the eras as a whole. Demonstrate how literature enhances personal awareness and creativity. Create original responses to the work through suggested writing and other projects, poems, scenes, interviews, songs, videos, and web pages, etc. Understand the spectrum of creative processes that authors utilize. Write and speak confidently about their own and others ideas. Discuss the aforementioned elements, ideas, evaluations, and interpretations in small groups and with the class as a whole.