TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to situate the works in the English literary canon within their appropriate socio-historical contexts of production, 2) will be able to analyze and discuss literary texts belonging to English Literature.
MODE OF DELIVERY	E-Learning
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course focuses on the major movements and periods in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the present through the study of representative texts.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Old English Period: Old English Literature; From Beowulf 2nd Week The Middle Ages: Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales 3rd Week from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; from Everyman 4th Week The Sixteenth Century; Edmund Spenser: Sonnets 34, 54; Christopher Marlowe: ?The Passionate Shepherd to His Love?; Shakespeare: Sonnets 3, 18, 130 5th Week The Seventeenth Century; John Donne: ?The Flea?; Robert Herrick, ?To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time?; Andrew Marvell: ?To His Coy Mistress? 6th Week MIDTERM EXAM 7th Week The Restoration and the 18th Century; Jonathan Swift: ?A Modest Proposal?; John Bunyan: The Pilgrim?s Progress; Alexander Pope, from An Essay on Man: Epistle 1 8th Week The Romantic Period; William Blake: ?The Chimney Sweeper?; William Wordsworth: ?I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?; ?My Heart Leaps Up?; ?The Tables Turned?; ?The World is too Much with Us? 9th Week Percy Bysshe Shelley: ?A Song: `Men of England??; Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Chp.5 10th Week The Victorian Period; Charles Dickens, Hard Times; Robert Browning: ?My Last Duchess?; Matthew Arnold: ?Dover Beach? 11th Week The Twentieth Century; Thomas Hardy: ?Hap?; Rupert Brooke: ?The Soldier?; Philip Larkin: ?Talking in Bed? 12th Week Revision
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Abrams, et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2000.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Other
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 40 Attendance 1 10 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No