BRITISH LITERATURE I (ENGL 2322)

Term: 2020-2021 Fall

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Erica C. Thompson

1200 Parker Square

Flower Mound, TX 75028

972-899-8337

ecthompson@nctc.edu

 

Title: Instructor of English

Education:

Bachelor of Arts, English Literature, University of North Texas, 1997

Master of Arts, English Literature, Midwestern State University, 2003

 

Description

A survey of the development of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Eighteenth Century. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions.

Upon successful completion, students will be able to: identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed in the literature of different periods or regions; analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different literary periods; demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or styles of expression during different historical periods or in different regions; articulate the aesthetic principles that guide the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities; and write re