Faculty Syllabus

Writing assignments, including analytical essays and tests, will constitute at least two-thirds
of the student’s final grade.
● The instructor may count other types of class projects, together accounting for no more than
one-third of a student’s final grade. Projects might include quizzes, readings, dramatizations,
journal writing, brief literary writing exercises, oral book readings, reports on authors, or other
activities.
● The instructor will provide more specific course objectives and requirements. A student not
complying with these requirements may be withdrawn from the course at any time up to the last
official withdrawal date.

• Various texts from Norton Anthology of World Literature - Volume D, E, F
• Excerpts from Enlightenement thinkers across Europe. 
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Parasite (film)

In this section of ENGL 2333, The Legacies of Enlightenment & Colonialism, we examine how

literary and cultural texts from the Enlightenment to the present have shape, challenge, and

structure modern political life. Beginning with revolutionary debates about rights,

patriotism, and popular sovereignty in writers such as Richard Price, Rousseau,

Wollstonecraft, and Godwin, the course moves through eighteenth-century texts on slavery

and empire and into postcolonial and contemporary works that confront the long afterlives

of colonialism. Across novels, political essays, poetry, manifestos, visual art, and film, we

will trace how narratives about nation, race, gender, and freedom are constructed and

contested, and how literature becomes a site for both domination and resistance.

• 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.