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School: Arts and Humanities
Course Number: LITR233
Course Name: The Clash of Civilizations: Literature in an
Increasingly Interconnected World
Credit Hours: 3
Length of Course: 8 Weeks
Prerequisite: ENGL101, ENGL110, or ENGL102

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Instructor Information	Evaluation Procedures
Course Description	Grading Scale
Course Scope	Course Outline
Course Objectives	Policies
Course Delivery Method	Academic Services
Course Materials	Selected Bibliography

Instructor Information

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Course Description (Catalog)

LITR202: World Literature Since the Renaissance (3 hours)

Travel through time and experience historical global events, diverse cultures, and exciting scenery. In LITR233, The Clash of Civilizations: Literature in an Increasingly Interconnected World, you won’t simply read a textbook. You will travel to different continents and time periods, observing life during significant moments in modern history. Through historic works, you will become part of the action, experiencing war, changing belief systems, and cultures. Not only will you understand what life was like for those in power, you will also see the world from the lens of those who have been oppressed. Come join our journey through history!

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Course Scope

LITR233 – The Clash of Civilizations: Literature in an Increasingly Interconnected World, presents readings selected from a variety of cultures and authors from the 17th century through the 20th century. Selections representing the interactions between cultures will be drawn from Western Europe, Russia, India, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Major themes include the individual’s struggle to adapt to a changing, increasingly globalized modern world which threatens, objectifies, and often misinterprets other cultures. Emphasis is placed on a cross-cultural and cross-temporal understanding of culture clashes, subjugation, and the quest for individual freedom.

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Course Objectives

After successfully completing this course, you will be able to:

1. Describe the major themes in a given piece of literature.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of basic literary terminology.
3. Recognize the ways that cultural, social, and historical differences have influenced literature.
4. Recognize the impact of colonialism on literature throughout the world.
5. Produce researched literary interpretations.

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Course Delivery Method

This course delivered via distance learning will enable students to complete academic work in a flexible manner, completely online. Course materials and access to an online learning management system will be made available to each student. Online assignments are due by Sunday evening of the week as noted and include forum questions and individual assignments submitted for review by the Faculty Member). Assigned faculty will support the students throughout this eight-week course.

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Course Materials

All required readings are available through the Internet. Additionally, links to access course materials including readings, videos, and films are provided within the course lessons, if possible.

Additional Resources Microsoft Word and PowerPoint

Adobe Reader — Go to http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html to download the latest version. This download is free.

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Evaluation Procedures

Reading Assignments:

Students will be required to complete the assigned readings and may have to consult various online MLA resources as provided by the instructor in order to complete both the written assignments and the discussion forum assignments for this course.

Forum Assignments:

Throughout this course, students will be required to participate in online discussion forums. Within the forums, students should participate actively and help their fellow students. We are all writers and have the ability to help each other improve. The requirements for each discussion forum is noted in the forum’s description, so make sure to read the descriptions carefully before posting.

Written Assignments:

Students will write journal entry, giving personal responses to the assigned readings; one formal research paper; and one PowerPoint assignment. The topics for these assignments will be either assigned or approved by the instructor. The essay requires research about assigned literary works

Grade Instruments	Percentage
5 Forums	20
6 Short Personal Reflection Entries	30
1 PowerPoint Project	20
1 Essay	30
Total	100

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8 – Week Course Outline

Please see the Student Handbook to reference the University’s grading scale.

Week	Topic	Learning	Reading(s)	Assignment(s)
		Objectives(s)
1	Setting the Stage — The Enlightenmen t	Identify the Enlightenment ideal of reason that would see through hypocrisy and greed.Identify how European Enlightenment concepts informed our revolutionary age.Describe how philosophical theories from the Enlightenment era affected li terature.	1) “What Is Enlightenment” Excerpt From: University of North Georgia. “Compact	Week One ForumJournal Entry One
			Anthology of World
			Literature, Part Four:
			The 17th and 18th
			Centuries.” Apple
			Books. Page 2024- 2042 2) Gulliver’s Travels – “Voyage to Lilliput” by Swift. Gutenberg Project, gutenberg.org. Search
			for Gulliver’s Travels. You can also listen to the first chapter here: Gulliver’s Travels
			Audiobook Chapter 1.
			3) “The Declaration of
			Independence.”
			4) “Notes on the State
			of Virginia – Query
			XI.”
2	Setting the Stage Realism and Modernism	Identify the characteristics of the realism and modern literary eras.Describe the effect that the realism and modern eras had on literature throughout the    world.	The below readings come from the . Compact Anthology of	1) PowerPoint Assignment
			World Literature, Part
			Five: The 17th and
			18th Centuries.

		Develop a presentation focused on the literature and theories from weeks one and two.	“What Is Realism” 4272 – 4274Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “The Cry of the Children” F1 Page 4280-4281, 42887-4299Chandra Chatterjee Bankim: “The Poison Tree” Chapter One Page 5677- 5691Olive Schreiner: “The Story of an African Farm” Chapter One: “The Watch.” Page 6125, 6134 – 6151 “What Is Modernism” 17-23James Joyce’s “The Dead.” 1706-1811 TS Eliot’s “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.” 1862 You may also listen to this poem on YouTube “The Lovesong of J
			Alfred Prufrock”
			Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce Et Decorum Est.” 1950
3	The Colonists and the Colonized: Africa	Recognize the impact of colonialism on literature in both Europe and Africa. Compare the portrayal of  colonial Africans by both	The below readings come from Compact	Week Three ForumJournal Entry Two The 20th Century and
			Anthology of World
			Literature, Part Six: