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Students read and analyze literary works drawn from non-English speaking cultures. Lecture and discussion shall emphasize both literary issues, including structure and technique, and a sense of the cultural backgrounds that inform those works. Instructors assign translated works from the ancient world until approximately 1650.

(Global Studies Intensive Course). World Literature I is a survey of multicultural literature from ancient times to the European Renaissance. Each semester selections are made from ancient Egyptian poetry, the Bible, Classical Greek literature, poetry in early China, an epic from India's Heroic Age, early Islamic literature and the beginnings of a Western literature. The course gives the student a more inclusive world view through a comparative study of the themes of world literature. The course includes an original research project. Pre-Requisite: HEN 113