ENG 108 - World Lit Medieval to Renaissance

4 Credit(s)

Prerequisite(s):

WR 115 or designated placement.

WR 115Q as required.

Course Description: Provides a survey of important works of world literature including manuscripts from India’s classical age, China’s “Middle Period,” the rise of Islam, the Middle Ages in Western Literature, the Golden Age of Japanese culture, and the Renaissance in Europe. Fulfills cultural literacy requirement within the Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer degree (AAOT).

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Summarize and explain the influence of significant texts from the 7th through 15th century. (ILO: Communication)
CLO#2: Explain how historical and social contexts influence literary expression.
CLO#3: Explain how race, gender, time, and place shape a given text.

Typical Course Content:

India’s Classical Age

Kalidasa, Sakuntala and the Ring of

Recollection

China’s Middle Period

Han-Shan

Li-Po

Yuan Chen The Story of Ying-Ying

The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature

The Koran

The Thousand and One Nights

Jalaloddin Rumi

The Formation of a Western Literature

Augustine The Confessions

Beowulf

Gawain and the Green Knight

Everyman

Dante Alighieri ”Inferno”

Giovanni Boccaccio The Decameron

Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales

The Renaissance in Europe

Petrarch’s sonnets

Erasmus’ The Praise of Folly

More’s Utopia

Lazarillo de Tormes

Cervantes’ Don Quixote

Shakespeare’s Hamlet

ACTI Code and Course Type
100 Lower Division Collegiate

Length of Course:
A required state minimum of (40) and a standard RCC delivery of (44) lecture hours per term, not to exceed (48) hours per term.