Faculty

ENGL-2322 British Literature: Anglo-Saxon Through 18th Century

Sarah Stayton

Credit Fall 2024

Section(s)

ENGL-2322-061 (90407)
LEC MW 9:00am - 10:20am RRC RRC8 8303.00

Course Requirements

PREREQUISITES
Enrollment in any literature course requires credit for both ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302 or their
equivalents. The grade in ENGL 1302 must be at least “C.” Instructor will verify.

Readings

Module:	Topics:	Readings:
0: Syllabus	Class Business	2322 Class Policies & Writing Review
1: Old English	Religious Poetry	Introduction "The Wanderer" "Caedmon's Hymn"
1: Old English	Heroic Poetry/Epic	Beowulf
1: Old English	Heroic Poetry/Epic	Beowulf
2: Middle English	Chivalric Romance	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2: Middle English	Chivalric Romance	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2: Middle English	Chivalric Romance	The Wife of Bath by Geoffrey Chaucer
2: Middle English	Chivalric Romance	The General Prologue of The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
3: Early Modern	Sonnets	Sonnets 18, 22, 29, 96 by Shakespeare
3: Early Modern	Sonnets	Sonnets 71, 130, and 138 by Shakespeare
3: Early Modern	Elizabethan Drama	Hamlet by Shakespeare (Acts 1-2)
3: Early Modern	Elizabethan Drama	Hamlet by Shakespeare (Acts 3-5)
4: Restoration/18C	Gothic Novel	Dracula by Bram Stoker
Thanksgiving Week
4: Restoration/18C	Gothic Novel	Dracula by Bram Stoker
4: Restoration/18C	Gothic Novel	Dracula by Bram Stoker

Course Subjects

English 2322, British Literature: Anglo-Saxon through 18th Century, is a survey of English literature
from Anglo-Saxon times through the 18th Century.

Student Learning Outcomes/Learning Objectives

The goals of sophomore literature courses are
● To provide a working knowledge of the characteristics of various literary genres.
● To develop analytical skills and critical thinking through reading, discussion, and written assignments.
● To broaden a student’s intercultural reading experience.
● To deepen a student’s awareness of the universal human concerns that are the basis for literary
works.
● To stimulate a greater appreciation of language as an artistic medium and of the aesthetic principles
that shape literary works.
● To understand literature as an expression of human values within an historical and social context.
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of sophomore literature, students should 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.
● Write research based critical papers about the assigned readings in clear and grammatically correct
prose, using various critical approaches to literature.
English department Students learning outcomes
The following outcomes are developed in all sophomore literature students regardless of student age or
course location:
● Write clearly, coherently and effectively about various genres in literature
● In discussions and writing, address the culture and context of the work of literature
● Write about and discuss elements of literary texts and relate these to the work as a whole.

Office Hours

T Th 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM Virtual Via Zoom

NOTE and 4:40 PM-7:30 PM To schedule, please use Calendly (linked in Blackboard).