ENG 680A - Studies in Comparative Literature

(3 units)

Literature in English and English translation, following a historical (e.g., Classicism, Romanticism, Modernism) or a formal (e.g., narrative and fiction, drama) approach.

Maximum units a student may earn: 6

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

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. examine how literary works represent urban life and will be able to put literary representations in dialogue with other ways of representing and analyzing urban experience.
2. mobilize their knowledge of literary urbanism to produce consequential oral and written literary criticism.
3. use comparative analysis to identify significant connections and contrasts among texts emerging out of diverse global contexts.
4. use historical and sociopolitical knowledge and appropriate theoretical concepts to show how literary form can illuminate the contexts out of which texts emerge.
5. show how literary representations of urban experience are shaped by their distinctive local, national, international, and transnational contexts.

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