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Course Syllabus

Course Title: SURVEY OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

Course Code: MC116
No. of Units: 3 units
Course Description:
This 3-unit course consists of reading and analyzing significant works of American literature from different eras. This course views literature through a historical perspective, relating the
way of living of the people of the era to the literary pieces they were able to produce. The objective of the course is to enable students to appreciate literature by developing their critical and
aesthetic senses and by acquainting them with the rich, literary heritage of the English and American people.

Learning Outcomes:
At the end of the course the students should be able to:

1. Begin to notice how language is used and how it varies across the array of contexts in which we engage daily.
2. Understand the theoretical underpinnings of the tradition of Sociolinguistics.
3. Understand different perspectives on context, including identities, social institutions, cultural values and their relationships with language.
4. Understand the issues confronting the nation-state
5. Assess the effects of globalization on different social units and their responses

Course Outline:

Week 1: Orientation/Course Introduction

- Defining English and American Literature
- Literary Terminologies
- Defining Literature and its Forms
Week 2: BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
- Origins and Basic Characteristics
- Characteristics of Old and Modern English
Week 3: LITERARY PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
- Old English (Anglo‐Saxon)
- Middle English
 - The English Renaissance
a. Elizabethan Period
b. Jacobean Period
c. Caroline Period
d. The Commonwealth & The Protectorate
Week 4: LITERARY PERIODS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (CONTINUATION)
- The Restoration
- The Eighteenth Century
- Romanticism
- Victorian Period
- Modern Period
- Postmodern and Contemporary Period
Week 5: LITERARY PERIODS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
- Colonial Period
- The Revolutionary Age
- The Early National Period
- The Romantic Period
- The Realistic Period
- The Naturalistic Period
Week 6: PRELIM EXAM WEEK
Week 7: LITERARY PERIODS OF AMERICAN LITERATURE (CONTINUATION)
- American Modernist Period
- Jazz Age, Harlem Renaissance
- The "Lost Generation"
- The Contemporary Period
- The Beat Writers
- Counterculture
Week 8: BEOWULF
Week 9: CANTERBURY TALES - GEOFFREY CHAUCER
Week 10: THE GREAT GATSBY - F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Week 11: THE TEMPEST - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Week 12: MIDTERM EXAM WEEK
Week 13: JANE EYRE - CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Week 14: UNCLE TOM’S CABIN HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
Week 15: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE - JANE AUSTEN
Week 16: WUTHERING HEIGHTS - EMILY BRONTE
Week 17: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - HARPER LEE
Week 18: FINAL EXAM WEEK