LIT2110 — WORLD LITERATURE FROM ANCIENT WORLD THROUGH RENAISSANCE
This course involves readings of a selection of ancient, medieval, and early renaissance works; recognition of the major characteristics in the literatures of various periods; and basic written analysis of selected works. Readings will draw from the Western Canon and other world literary canons. Authors may include Homer, Sappho, Plato, Sophocles (Greece); Confucius, Lao Tzu (China); Boccaccio, Dante (Italy); Cervantes (Spain); Chaucer, Shakespeare (England); Tertullian (Rome); Omar Khayyam (Persia); Tertullian (Roman North Africa), Ibn Battuta (Morocco), and others. Excerpts may also be included from the Aztec Codices, the Old and New Testaments, the Koran, the Bhagavad-Gita, the Kebra Nagast (a 14th- century Ethiopian Christian epic), or the Arabian Nights. LIT2110 is a writing credit course. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet requirements of the Gordon Rule for writing. LIT2110 meets the International/Intercultural competency requirement.