LIT 2120H - Honors World Literature II (Renaissance to the Present)

Communications Department

Effective Term Spring 2015 (495)

Requisites

(Prerequisite ENC 1101 with a minimum grade of C and
Prerequisite appropriate scores on the SPC placement test) or
Prerequisite ENC 1101H with a minimum grade of C or
Prerequisite IDS 1101H with a minimum grade of C or
Prerequisite IDS 1111H with a minimum grade of C or
Prerequisite approval of the Dean.

Course Description

This course is designed to study the major poetry, fiction, drama, and essays of world literature from the Renaissance to the present. Emphasis is on the intellectual, philosophical, and cultural issues in literature that unite humankind despite differences in time, place, and language. This course also emphasizes methods of library research and the writing of a research paper and a paper of literary interpretation. This honors course will include personalized experiences, collaborative learning experiences and an emphasis on analysis and synthesis of abstract questions relating to world literature. It will also explore alternative modes of literature represented by media adaptations of works of literature. Students will investigate global perspectives and discussion on political, social and cultural issues as they appear in world literature from the Renaissance to the present. This course partially satisfies the writing requirements as outlined in the General Education Requirements. LIT 2110H is not a prerequisite for this course. Credit is only given for LIT 2120H or LIT 2120 or IDS 1102H.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will demonstrate the ability to recognize and analyze selected examples of the major literary forms of world literature including filmic adaptations from the Renaissance to the present by:
    1. identifying, distinguishing, and critiquing the major poetic forms and conventions.
    2. identifying, distinguishing, and critiquing the major prose forms and conventions.
  2. The student will demonstrate the ability to select works of depth beyond the scope of the required text and to analyze and synthesize ideas found there as they relate to international cultural issues of the past and present by:
    1. developing a reading list by authors from multiple cultures.
    2. explaining and exploring the principal ideas of lesser known world writers as well as well established world writers.
    3. examining the influence of culture upon form and content in literature.
    4. comparing and contrasting the development of ideas and styles of filmic adaptations in the works of Western world writers, Eastern world writers, and African world writers.
  3. The student will demonstrate the ability to comprehend, explain, and evaluate a broad range of contributions by writers of world literature from the Renaissance to the present and from East to West to Africa, and synthesize those ideas into meaningful discussion about archetypal themes worldwide by:
    1. probing and analyzing works of world literature writers from Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America.
    2. exploring the principal ideas of world writers from Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America, especially as they reveal the intellectual, philosophical, and cultural universals in literature.
    3. analyzing the principal literary innovations of world literature from Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America.
    4. discussing conclusions about world writers, their works, and their ideas from the Renaissance to the present, especially as they reveal the philosophical, intellectual, and cultural universals in literature.
    5. determining the influence of culture and experience and tradition on world writers, especially as they reveal the philosophical, intellectual, and cultural universals that unite humankind despite differences in time, place and language.
  4. The student will demonstrate the ability to evaluate, synthesize, and explain insights into the philosophical, intellectual, and cultural universals in world literature from the Renaissance to the present, insights based on ideas and information from reading, class discussions, independent study, collaborative panels, power point presentations and/or library research by:
    1. drawing logical inferences from study and discussion of the philosophical, intellectual, and cultural universals.
    2. analyzing these inferences and supporting them with evidence from world literature and/or from secondary sources in an oral report and/or an interpretive essay.
  5. The student will demonstrate the ability to use the library and the internet effectively by:
    1. locating sources through the catalog or through electronic search.
    2. locating sources, either print or electronic, through other types of references, such as periodical and subject indexes, and general reference aids.
    3. creating and explaining a personal set of criteria for establishing levels of credibility for those sources.
  6. The student will demonstrate the ability to access and synthesize literary sources appropriately, in combination with personal reaction, to compose a research paper and essays of literary interpretation by:
    1. taking notes from specified sources to include:
      1. identifying and paginating the notes correctly.
      2. using ellipses and brackets as needed.
      3. summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, and combining these types of notes effectively.
    2. writing papers which integrate the student's own words and ideas with those of primary and/or secondary sources.
    3. using parenthetical references throughout the paper to credit information from a primary source.
    4. using parenthetical references throughout the paper to credit information from a primary source.
    5. preparing a works cited or references list of the sources used in the research paper.
    6. using correct forms for parenthetical references, footnotes/endnotes and for works cited or reference entries, according to the required form.
  7. The student will demonstrate the ability to retrieve information from electronic sources effectively and efficiently and to create a list of criteria based upon rational standards for evaluating and determining credibility of those sources by:
    1. selecting the most appropriate investigative methods.
    2. constructing and refining search strategies.
    3. extracting, recording, and managing the information and its sources.
    4. explaining criteria for evaluating the credibility of sources and information
  8. The student will demonstrate the ability to explain connections between examples of world literature and the ideals and images those examples reinforce for readers by:
    1. developing basic criteria for evaluating both the information and its sources.
    2. synthesizing main ideas to construct new concepts.
    3. working collaboratively to determine unique characteristics of culture and writing.
    4. investigating and forming conclusions about alternate delivery forms of fiction represented by media adaptations.
    5. creating queries intended to demonstrate the synthesis of cultural and archetypal concepts.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of the above stated objectives. Writing will meet the criteria of at least Level 4 in the SPC Analytical Rubric for Writing.

History of Changes

C&I 5/25/04, BOT 6/22/04, Eff 20041 (0340 PS). Flexible Access 20041. Removed GR word count reference per State mandate, eff20061(0370). 3 Year Review 2007. Amended exclusion 10/28/09,
C&I Approval: 05/16/2014, BOT Approval: 10/21/2014, Effective Term: Spring 2015 (495)