WORLD LITERATURE I (ENGL 2332)

Term: 2023-2024 Spring

Faculty

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Robert Burton

 

North Central Texas College, MWSU220

100 Parker Square Rd

Flower Mound, TX 75028

(972) 899-8350

rburton@nctc.edu

 

Teaching Experience:

Instructor- English, Speech and Foreign Language

 

Education:

M. Arts Humanities, University of Dallas, 2015

M. Arts English, Texas Woman's University, 2002

B.A. English, University of North Texas, 1997

Schedule

Mon-Wed, 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM (1/16/2024 - 5/11/2024) Location: FLM FLM02 230

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