Course details

Name: ENGL - 117

Title: WORLD LITERATURE: VOICES OF TRADITION AND CHALLENGE

Section: 02

Semester: Spring - 2019

Credits: 3

Description:
This course is designed to expand our experiences with literature as a mode of expression. The broader our exposure to stories, plays and poetry, the greater our awareness of how magnificent the literary world is. As such, this course experiments with international literature's various modes of empowerment and the expansive nature of words.
We will read some fascinating works from the recent past (almost exclusively 20th & 21st century) and watch some feature films from countries and cultures beyond our comfort zone of England and the US. We will discover how writers and other cultural artists express their love of certain traditional values and beliefs, while often presenting new visions of resistance and change.
This section will focus on literature as an art form, and address the exciting question: what can art do?
Potential artists/works MAY include:
Films: Spirited Away, The Neverending Story; Godzilla
Novels: Skarmeta’s Il Postino, Vargas Llosa’s Storyteller, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Martell’s Life of Pi, Exuperay’s The Little Prince, and/or Hesse’s Siddhartha
Plays: Beckett's Waiting for Godot; Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author, and/or Chekhov's The Seagull
Short stories by Calvino, Borges, Chekhov, Maupassant and/or Mishima.

This course meets the Gen Ed F1. Great Works and their Influences requirement.

Last updated on 2018-10-14 By Nicosia James (nicosiaj)

Schedule: Tuesday,Thursday From 8:30 am To 9:45 am

Graduation requirements:

• International Issues (3a)
• World Literature (TE 6a)

Teaching Faculty: Nicosia James (nicosiaj)

Is course canceled: No