EN 281 - Survey of British Literature I

Description
This course surveys British literature from the Medieval Era through the Eighteenth Century, examining works across poetry, drama, and prose. Students will explore key authors, texts, and literary movements, analyzing how works reflect and shape Britain’s cultural, social, political, and religious contexts. Through close reading, discussion, and writing, students will interpret, evaluate, and critically assess texts within their historical and cultural frameworks.

Credit Hours: 3
Contact Hours: 3
Prerequisites/Other Requirements: EN 101 (C or Higher)
English Prerequisite(s): None
Math Prerequisite(s): None
Course Corequisite(s): None
Academic Program Prerequisite: None
Consent to Enroll in Course: No Department Consent Required
Dual Enrollment Allowed?: Yes
Number of Times Course can be taken for credit: 1
Programs Where This Course is a Requirement:
Pre-English Literature, A.A. (General Transfer), Pre-Writing, A.A. (General Transfer)

Other Courses Where This Course is a Prerequisite: None
Other Courses Where this Course is a Corequisite: None
Other Courses Where This course is included in within the Description: None

General Education Requirement:
None
General Education Learner Outcomes (GELO):
NA
Course Learning Outcomes:
1. Identify key authors, works, and literary movements from the Medieval through the Eighteenth Century and explain their impact on British culture, politics, religion, and literature.

2. Identify key authors, works, and literary movements from the Medieval through the Eighteenth Century and explain their impact on British culture, politics, religion, and literature.

3. Analyze literary texts, such as epic poetry, drama, and the novel, for their style, theme, characterization, rhetoric, and genre, and connect them to Britain’s evolving social, cultural, and historical contexts.

4. Interpret written information accurately and assess its meaning, use, and potential bias.

5. Evaluate how literary works reflect or diverge from their periods and analyze them within historical, social, political, and economic contexts.
Course Outline:
I. The Medieval Era (Anglo-Saxon Era through Fifteenth Century)

A. Read and analyze a diverse body of published works from the Medieval Era to discuss

1. Elements of craft and genre
2. Social, cultural, historical, political, and religious influences

B. Compare published works of this and other era as a means of understanding commonalities and differences among ideas and perspectives in Great Britain across time

C. Produce texts that interpret, analyze, or creatively represent the published works of the Medieval Era

II. The Sixteenth and early Seventeenth Centuries

A. Read and analyze a diverse body of published works from the Sixteenth and early Seventeenth centuries to discuss

1. Elements of craft and genre
2. Social, cultural, historical, political, and religious influences

B. Compare published works of this and other era as a means of understanding commonalities and differences among ideas and perspectives in Great Britain across time

C. Produce texts that interpret, analyze, or creatively represent the published works of the Sixteenth and early Seventeenth centuries

III. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century

A. Read and analyze a diverse body of published works from the Restoration and Eighteenth century and discuss

1. Elements of craft and genre
2. Social, cultural, historical, political, and religious influences

B. Compare published works of this and other era as a means of understanding commonalities and differences among ideas and perspectives in Great Britain across time

C. Produce texts that interpret, analyze, or creatively represent the published works of the Restoration and Eighteenth century

Approved for Online and Hybrid Delivery?:
Yes
Instructional Strategies:
Traditional lecture: 0-30%

Facilitated discussion: 0-50%

Mediated discussion: 0-50%

Group work: 0-30%

Other (such as project work): 0-20%
Mandatory Course Components:
None
Equivalent Courses:
None

Accepted GRCC Advanced Placement (AP) Exam Credit: None
AP Min. Score: NA
Name of Industry Recognize Credentials: None

Course prepares students to seek the following external certification:
No
Course-Specific Placement Test: None
Course Aligned with ARW/IRW Pairing: N/A

Mandatory Department Assessment Measures:
None

GRCC Course Type:
Program Requirement: Meets the learning needs of students in a specific GRCC program.
Course Format:
Lecture - 1:1
Total Lecture Hours Per Week: 3
People Soft Course ID Number: 102488
Course CIP Code: 23.01
Maximum Course Enrollment: 25
Course Software Utilized: None

High School Articulation Agreements exist?: No
If yes, with which high schools?: NA
Non-Credit GRCC Articulation Agreement With What Area: No
Identify the Non Credit Programs this Course is Accepted: NA

School: School of Liberal Arts
Department: English
Discipline: EN
First Term Valid: Fall 2019 (8/1/2019)
1st Catalog Year: 2019-2020
Faculty Credential Requirements:
Master’s Degree (GRCC general requirement), Other (list below)
Faculty Credential Requirement Details:
The instructor must possess a broad base of knowledge of British Literature, with a degree or advanced coursework in British Literature and/or History.

Major Course Revisions: N/A
Last Revision Date Effective: 20260219T15:30:46
Course Review & Revision Year: 2030-2031