BRITISH LITERATURE I (ENGL 2322)

Term: 2025-2026 Fall

Faculty

Amber Regina CountsShow MyInfo popup for Amber Regina Counts

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Amber Counts

North Central Texas College

1500 North Corinth

Corinth, TX 76208

469-713-5190 x3162

acounts@nctc.edu

Teaching Experience: Instructor, English - since 2012

Education:

• M.A. in English - Southern New Hampshire University (2023)
• B.A. in Literary Studies - University of Texas at Dallas (2011)
• A.A. in Humanities - Dallas College (Brookhaven) (2004)

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