Apr 30, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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ENG 3550 - Studies in World Literature


Presents a mosaic of texts to acquaint students with the literature of Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern European, and Latin America. Designed to provide samples of diverse writing from different historical, cultural, and socio-political contexts. Emphasizes shorter texts (short stories, poems, novellas, plays) to better acquaint students with at least two of the various regions.

Requisites: ENG 2010 or 2020 or 250 or 2 courses above ENG 200 or (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Apply analytical and critical skills to appreciate the cultural and symbolic underpinnings of texts that emerge from diverse environments.
  • Foster the values of multi-culturalism and transnationalism by enriching students’ understanding of diverse environments.
  • Investigate texts that explore, celebrate, and/or problematize various issues of identity, including cultural, racial, gender, ethnic, religious, linguistic, and political.
  • Study canonized or noncanonical authors in their cultural contexts.



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