LITR 240 - Shakespeare

Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Laboratory Hours: 0

Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100 or ENGL 200

Restriction(s): None

Corequisite(s): None

This course is a study of representative Shakespearean drama, with emphasis on its universality and its reflection of literary tradition. Attention is given to the Elizabethan world view and history as they reflect and reveal the playwright and his text.

Student Learning Outcomes of the Course: Students will:

show proficiency with the specialized vocabulary of the field and the significance of relevant historical contexts (measures the conventions of one area of the humanities);
develop an interpretation and / or argument in response to a text or texts (measures the conventions and methods of one area of the humanities)