EN 220 - British Literature I

Fulfills the following SUNY General Education categories: 

• The Arts
• Humanities

• demonstrate mastery of a basic body of literary-historical information pertaining to the periods under consideration: salient historical and social facts; names of major authors and works; specific or approximate dates of important works and careers; a rudimentary chronology of authors and literary movements to enable understanding of period, tradition, and influence;
• define literary terms for modes and devices applicable to the periods under consideration in the course and recognize those modes and devices in use in literary works;
• characterize periods in English literature before 1800 (Old English, Middle English, Renaissance [Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century], Restoration, Eighteenth Century/Augustan, and Early Romantic);
• demonstrate ability to analyze literature critically, orally, and in writing with attention to subtleties of language, ideas, and form; and
• demonstrate ability to gain insight on an author’s work through introductory-level library research and critical reading. (optional: course may focus entirely on primary texts)