Description
Study of major works of literature, both ancient and modern, from various languages and diverse cultures--western and non-western.
Grading Basis
Graded
Course Learning Outcomes
Core Topics
Overview of classical and modern issues in translation as found in such works as:
- The Invention of Writing and the Earliest Literatures (including Gilgamesh)
- The Bible: Old Testament
- Ancient Greece and the Formation of the Western Mind (selected Greek classics)
- Poetry and Thought in Early China (selected Chinese classics)
- India’s Heroic Age (selected Sanskrit classics)
- Roman Empire to Christian Europe (Bible: New Testament selected works)
- India’s Classical Age
- China’s Middle Period
- The Rise of Islam and Islamic Literature (Koran)
- The Renaissance in Europe
- The Twentieth Century (The Wasteland, Prufrock and other selected works)
Evaluation:
Periodic evaluation through student in-class text discussion, papers, and exams.
At least two papers.
At least two exams.