VICTORIAN LITERATURE | Spring 2008
INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Individual Learning Outcomes
Indvidual students in Engl 315 will:
- understand the major historical trends (such as industrialism) and intellectual debates (such as the debate over evolution) that form the context of British literature from 1832-1901;
- know and be able to discuss critically, in context, the works of major British Victorian authors;
- understand and be able to employ the conventions of critical writing about literature;
- know how to find, use, and properly acknowledge secondary sources for an essay of literary criticism.
Community Learning Outcomes
The Engl 315-01 (Spring 2008), community will:
- produce new knowledge (new for this community) about Victorian literature and its contexts;
- share knowledge about Victorian literature and its contexts in accordance with scholarly conventions;
- discuss and debate ideas about Victorian literature and its contexts in ways that respect the diversity of the community.