Details for ENG102 17th – 19th Century Literature in English

In this unit, students will learn to critically analyse english literature through a societal lens, by classifying and interpreting key arguments of English literary texts. This unit will give students the skills they need in a professional setting to significantly enhance the analytical and critical thinking skills neccesary to understand literary texts.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: ENG102
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

Nil

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Identify connections between English texts and their social and political contexts;
2. Review the signature literary texts of the English language across the 17th-19 Centuries;
3. Discuss how ideas, perspectives, and values are represented in texts and how they are received by audiences;
4. Recognise and differentiate texts, through the identification of the structural, conventional, and language and stylistic features used by authors;
5. Select evidence to develop, support, and justify a critical interpretation of a text;
6. Classify and interpret arguments relating to the structure of two key English literary texts.

Subject Content

• The 17th Century poetic text
• The 18th Century: birth of the Novel
• The Romantic poets
• Redemptive plots in the 19th Century English bildungsroman
• Mid Victorian poetry
• New Frontiers of English: American Naturalism

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to Face (on site)
• E-Learning (online)
• Intensive

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Forum Posts (20%)
• Text Review Reading Journal (30%)
• Major Essay (50%)

Prescribed Text

• Please contact your instructor before purchasing any texts