Literature and Writing: Middle Ages to 17th Century

COM LIT 4BW - Literature and Writing: Middle Ages to 17th Century

Exploring Premodern Literature

COM LIT 2BW - Exploring Premodern Literature

Lecture, two hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 2BW or 4BW. Study of world literature, with emphasis on Western civilization as it grapples with its past and with other civilizations. Examination of works such as pre-Islamic poetry, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Shakespeare’s King Lear, and Nezami’s Layla and Majnun. Consult Schedule of Classes for topics to be offered in specific term. P/NP or letter grading.

Comparative Literature

College of Letters and Science

General Education — Literacy & Cultural Analysis (Arts & Humanities)

COM LIT 1B - Premodern Global Literature

Premodern Global Literature

-	Identify major works and authors of world literature from the Middle Ages through the 17th century

-	Employ a Mediterranean perspective to historically sort the transmission and translation of novelistic prose in the medieval and early modern period

-	Question the Eurocentrism of received concepts, primarily “the novel” 

-	Interrogate how “world literature” as a category does and does not foster deep literary exchange 

General Catalog

Premodern Global Literature

COM LIT 1B

5 units