Lower Division Courses

1A. World Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages. (5)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 2AW or 4AW. Study of major texts in world literature, with emphasis on Western civilization. Texts include major works and authors such as Iliad or Odyssey, Greek tragedies, portions of the Bible, Virgil, Petronius, St. Augustine, and others such as Gilgamesh or Tristan and Iseult. P/NP or letter grading.

1B. World Literature: Middle Ages to the 17th Century. (5)
Lecture, three 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 major texts in world literature, with emphasis on Western civilization. Texts include works and authors such as Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dante's Divine Comedy, Boccaccio's Decameron, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Shakespeare, Calderón, Molière, and Racine. P/NP or letter grading.

1C. World Literature: Age of Enlightenment to the 20th Century. (5)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 2CW or 4CW. Study of major texts in world literature, with emphasis on Western civilization. Authors include Swift, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Goethe, Flaubert, Ibsen, Strindberg, Dostoevsky, Kafka, Joyce, Woolf, and Stevens. P/NP or letter grading.

1D. Great Books from the World at Large. (5)
Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Enforced requisite: satisfaction of Entry-Level Writing requirement. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 2DW or 4DW. Study of major literary texts usually overlooked in courses that focus only on canon of Western literature. Texts from at least three of the following areas read in any given term: African, Caribbean, East Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern literature. P/NP or letter grading.

2AW. Survey of Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages. (5)
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1A or 4AW. Study of selected texts from antiquity to Middle Ages, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts include works and authors such as Odyssey, Gilgamesh, Sappho, Greek tragedies, Aeneid, Petronius, Beowulf, Marie de France, Tristan and Iseult, 1001 Nights, Popul Vuh. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

2BW. Survey of Literature: Middle Ages to the 17th Century. (5)
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1B or 4BW. Study of selected texts from Middle Ages to the 17th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works by authors such as Chaucer, Dante, Cervantes, Marguerite de Navarre, Shakespeare, Calderón, Molière, and Racine. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

2CW. Survey of Literature: Age of Enlightenment to the 20th Century. (5)
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1C or 4CW. Study of selected texts from the Age of Enlightenment to the 20th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works by authors such as Swift, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Goethe, Flaubert, Ibsen, Strindberg, M. Shelley, Dostoevsky, Kafka, James Joyce, Garcia Marquez, and Jamaica Kincaid. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

2DW. Survey of Literature: Great Books from the World at Large. (5)
Lecture, two hours; discussion, two hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1D or 4DW. Study of major literary texts usually overlooked in courses that focus only on canon of Western literature, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts from at least three of the following areas read in any given term: African, Caribbean, East Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern literature. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

4AW. Literature and Writing: Antiquity to Middle Ages. (5)
Discussion, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1A or 2AW. Study and discussion of selected texts from antiquity to the Middle Ages, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts include works and authors such as Iliad, Odyssey, Gilgamesh, Sappho, Greek tragedies, Aeneid, Petronius, Beowulf, or Marie de France. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

4BW. Literature and Writing: Middle Ages to the 17th Century. (5)
Discussion, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1B or 2BW. Study and discussion of selected texts from the Middle Ages to the 17th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works and authors such as Chaucer, Dante's Divine Comedy, Cervantes' Don Quixote, Shakespeare, 1001 Nights, Christine de Pizan, Popul Vuh, Molière, and Racine. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

4CW. Literature and Writing: Age of Enlightenment to the 20th Century. (5)
Discussion, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1C or 2CW. Study and discussion of selected texts from the Age of Enlightenment to the 20th century, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts may include works by authors such as Swift, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Goethe, M. Shelley, Flaubert, Ibsen, Strindberg, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Kafka, Joyce, Beckett, L. Hughes, and Garcia Marquez. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.

4DW. Literature and Writing: Great Books from the World at Large. (5)
Discussion, four hours. Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Not open for credit to students with credit for course 1D or 2DW. Study and discussion of major literary texts usually overlooked in courses that focus only on the canon of Western literature, with emphasis on literary analysis and expository writing. Texts from at least three of the following areas read in any given term: African, Caribbean, East Asian, Latin American, and Middle Eastern literature. Texts may include works by authors such as Ngugi, Desai, Kincaid, Emecheta, El Saadawi, Achebe, Pak, Can Xue, Neruda, and Rushdie. Satisfies Writing II requirement. Letter grading.