2010 Catalog - Delaware County Community College

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS 113
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Discuss the roles of women reflected in selected literature.
• Construct a series of response essays that demonstrate a
critical analysis of the literature under discussion.
• Demonstrate research and documentation skills through
the exploration of a selected topic.
• Explain the roles of women in literature in terms of
economic, political and social issues.
• Identify literary contributions by women of color who
traditionally have had no "voice," such as African
American, Asian American, Chicano and Native
American writers.
• Analyze the literary elements of the works studied.
Prereq. ENG 100
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 215
Mystery Literature
This course includes conventional detective stories and
novels, short stories, films and plays not often analyzed as
mysteries. An introduction to logic will be presented, and
writers' use of induction and deduction will be studied.
Later forms of detection such as the "hard-boiled" and
psychological schools will be placed into the chronology of
the genre. The major focus, however, will be on literary
elements of each story: each will be evaluated as to narrative
stance and structure, methods of characterization,
theme and literary devices.
Through reading and analyzing the function of mystery,
students should be able to:
• Recognize the logical processes of each work.
• Discuss literary elements such as characterization, theme,
narrative stance and symbolism.
• Learn to distinguish essential from non-essential facts
in a narrative.
• Write documented papers demonstrating an ability to
reach logical conclusions based on given facts.
• Analyze recurrent themes in this fiction, such as "poetic
justice," criminal motivation and the notion of order
in society.
Prereq. ENG 112
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 216
Science Fiction Literature
Metaphorically, this course is a journey into the strange
and at times terrifying possibilities of societies in which
technology is out of control. In a sense all of the readings
are works of future shock-speculative fiction in which we
see technological advancement leading to newer problems,
especially of an ethical nature.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Comment knowledgeably about the literary and popular
culture contexts of the readings.
• Identify and comment on the typical devices of dystopian
writers (particularly satire, burlesque, caricature and farce).
• Relate these devices to such dystopian themes as
conformity vs. individualism, humanistic vs.
technological goals.
• Recognize and comment critically on the political,
utilitarian and totalitarian abuses of language in
dystopian societies.
• Apply research and outlining skills in a project to be
presented orally.
Prereq. ENG 100
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 220 British Literature to 1800
This is a survey of English literature from the beginnings
to the pre-romantics. The emphasis is on the major works
and writers.
Upon successful completion of the course, students should
be able to:
• Identify historical and cultural characteristics of each of
the literary periods.
• Identify literary devices such as image, symbol, irony,
conceits, figurative language.
• Trace some ideas through works of each period; i.e., the
concept of warrior, of women, of faith.
• Analyze literary form such as allegory, sonnet, lyric,
satire, short story.
• Develop a precise thesis about a particular work.
Prereq. ENG 112
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 221
British Literature to Modern
This is a survey of English literature from the romantics
to the moderns. The emphasis will be on the major works
of major writers.
Upon successful completion of the course, students
should be able to:
• Identify historical and cultural characteristics of each of
the literary periods.
• Identify literary devices such as image, symbol, irony,
conceits, figurative language and stream of consciousness.
• Trace some ideas through works of each period; i.e., the
concept of nature, of imagination and of women.
• Identify the personal myth structure of each of the
major writers.
• Analyze literary forms such as allegory, sonnet, lyric,
satire and short story.
• Develop and present a precise thesis about a
particular work.
Prereq. ENG 112
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 222
Introduction to Shakespeare
This course is a study of representative Shakespearean
plays set against the literary, political and social setting
that spawned them. Attention is paid to Shakespeare's
influence not only in the development of the drama, but
also in the literary tradition of the English-speaking world.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify selected plays as to type: comedy, history
and tragedy.
• Reconstruct the written word and see each play as a
dramatic production.
• Reconstruct the whole of the play: setting, atmosphere,
action and character.
• Read and comprehend blank verse, specific Elizabethan
idiom and allusions employed by Shakespeare.
• Analyze critically each play for its relationship between
plot and philosophical or thematic base.
Prereq. ENG 112
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 225 Modern Chinese Literature
Special Studies
This course will involve the study of representative
Chinese literary works written from 1949 (the establishment
of the People’s Republic of China) to the present.
Special attention will be given to the historical context of
the literature in an effort to understand the interplay of
politics, society, and literature in China.
Upon successful completion of this course students
should be able to:
• Identify major characteristics of modern Chinese literature
• Discuss the political influences on/of modern Chinese
literature
• Recognize major writers of modern Chinese literature
• Analyze the influence of Western literary traditions on
modern Chinese literature
• Respond to the literature studied both orally and in
documented essays
• Recognize the contributions of modern Chinese literature
to the world.
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 230 American Literature -
Shaping the Ideal
A survey of American literature from its colonial beginnings
to 1865, with the emphasis on the study of major figures.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify various characteristics of periods in American
literature from colonial times to the Civil War.
• Identify various kinds of American literature.
• Indicate his/her interpretation of a poem or a passage
from a poem in American literature of the period.
• Discuss some basic issues treated in the American essay,
short story and novel.
Prereq. ENG 112
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 231 American Literature -
Romanticism to Skepticism
This course, a continuation of American Literature:
Shaping the Ideal, considers literature from 1865 to
the postwar period.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify various characteristics of post-Civil War
American literature.
• Identify various socio-economic, historic and aesthetic
influences on the authors and the writing of the period.
• Analyze a work in relation to those forces as well as offer
an independent analysis of them.
• Discuss their intellectual or emotional response to a work
of the period.
Prereq. ENG 112
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 240
World Literature I
The selective study of great representative literary works
of the world from antiquity to modern times with emphasis
on their social, cultural and intellectual backgrounds.
Special attention is given to the literature of continental
Europe, Asia and Africa.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify the major historical characteristics of the three
periods covered (ancient world, the medieval period and
the Renaissance).
• List literary form and content that lets us differentiate
among the three periods.
• Discuss (both orally and in writing) examples of literature
in each period.
• Discuss the influence of early periods on later ones.
• Compare and contrast the characteristics of the three periods.
Prereq. ENG 112
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 241
World Literature II
Continues the balanced, selective study of great representative
literary works of the world from the Renaissance to
the present day in their geographical, historical, economic,
political and sociological contexts. The "emerging"
literatures-works by women, colonials, post-colonials and
those groups generally denied a voice-are studied in an
attempt to enlarge the canon and render it inclusive.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify the major writers and literary influences of the
cultures studied.