World Literature II

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This course provides students with the opportunity to read, analyze, evaluate, and discuss representative works by world writers from the Renaissance to the present. Western and non-Western writers such as Cao Xueqin, Moliere, de la Cruz, Basho, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, Dostoevsky, Tagore, Woolf, Mahfouz, Gordimer, and Achebe will be presented. Students will become familiar with short stories, drama, and poetry and the literary devices commonly used in them. Prerequisite: Composition II (ENGL 1213) with a C or better. Students do not have to take this literature course in sequence. ACTS Index Number ENGL 2123