University General Course Catalog 2026-2027 
    
    Sep 06, 2026  
University General Course Catalog 2026-2027

ENG 644A - British Romantic Literature

(3 units)
English writers from about 1790-1832, e.g., Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats.

Grading Basis: Graded
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Spring

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
2. analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
3. develop strategies for reading and interpreting the poetry, drama, and fiction of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
4. identify the Romantic movement in literature in Britain, and explain the defining features of Romanticism.
5. employ and apply critical and theoretical texts to primary works.


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