Student Expectations
Live Literature Classes:
Attend a one-hour, weekly, live course session
Complete each week’s assigned reading
Take a short, online comprehension quiz
Answer a weekly, online discussion question each week
Submit two literary analysis papers and one creative project
Self-Paced Literature Classes:
All recordings will be available from September - May.
Lit 2: The Middle Ages
This course starts with a brilliant Seamus Heaney translation of the Anglo-Saxon classic, Beowulf. We cover the medieval masterpiece, The Inferno, and selections from the Canterbury Tales. We spend lots of time in the legends of King Arthur, throwing in a 20th century retelling, T.H. White's The Once and Future King. We read the influential works Utopia and Doctor Faustus and the first book of Spencer's fantastic epic The Faerie Queen. Then we take our time and soak in the English language's greatest and most important writer, William Shakespeare, sampling his poetry, comedies, tragedies, and histories. The course concludes with a quick look at the metaphysical poets of the 17th century.
Please see the course calendar for meeting time. All class sessions will be recorded.