Welcome to English 2800. This is a communications intensive course, designed to introduce you to a variety of world cultures and literature, starting at the very beginning, and moving through history until just a little bit after Shakespeare.
The aim of this course is to introduce you to a wide variety of literary texts, hone your writing and critical thinking skills, and help you learn to express yourself articulately, beyond this course. These are pretty substantial goals, but we’ll get to them through reading some really wonderful work, and having some in-depth class discussions. The theme of this class is the myth of the golden age. I want us to think about paradise – how it’s constructed from culture to culture, how one gets there, and more importantly, what one has to do to stay there.
This is the class blog, and here you will find the syllabus, our weekly assignments, and be able to look at the work of your classmates, and interact with them in an online forum. So, have a look around, and I’ll look forward to getting to know you a little more in class!
LG