WORLD LITERATURE I (ENGL 2332)

Term: 2016-2017 Spring

Faculty

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Kevin Eubanks

North Central Texas College

1500 North Corinth

Corinth, Texas 76208

Corinth 308

keubanks@nctc.edu

Instructor, English

Education

Ph.D. in English: University of Tennessee (1997)

M.A. in English: Baylor Unitersity (1989)

B.A. in English: Baylor University (1987)

Teaching Positions

 Instructor, North Central Texas College, 2000-present

 Adjunct Instructor, Texas Wesleyan University, 1999-2000

 Adjunct Instructor, University of Tennessee, 1997-99

 Instructor, University of Tennessee, 1996-97

 Graduate Teaching Associate, University of Tennessee, 1991-96

 Professor, Baiko Women's University, Shimonoseki, Japan, 1989-91

Description

A study of world literature from the ancient world through the sixteenth century. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical 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 research-based critical papers about th