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Ahmad Dahlan University (UAD)

English Education Study Program (PBI)

Course Outline / Syllabus

Introduction to Literature

             

General Objectives	The students can understand the concepts of literature in general, the English (British) literature,  and great American authors
Texts	Beckoff, Samuel. 1971. English Literature I. New York: Monarch Press. McMichael, George (ed.). 1980. Anthology of American Literature. Volume I and II. Second Edition. New York: McMillan Publishing Co. Inc. Subhan, Bustami. 2011. Understanding British Literature. Yogyakarta:  LPPDMF.

Study Program

Week	Topic/Material
1	Introduction (What is literature? What are the functions of literature? What are the periods of British and American literature?
2	The old English period (Beowulf)
3	The renaissance period (William Shakespeare)
4	The neoclassical period (Daniel Defoe and Jane Austen)
5	The romantic period (Robert Burns, ST Coleridge, and William Wordsworth)
6	The Victorian period (Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte)
7	The modern period (Agatha Christie and     J.K. Rowling)
MID SEMESTER EXAM in the form of task-home exam, paper writing, and task-based learning
8	The colonial period (Captain John Smith and Benjamin Franklin)
9	The early national period (Washington Irving and Philip Freneau)
10	The romantic period (Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville)
11	The realistic period (Mark Twain and Theodore Dreiser)
12	The naturalistic period (Stephen Crane and Jack London)
13	The American modernist period (Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald)
14	The contemporary period (Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams)
FINAL EXAM in the form of task-home exam, paper writing, and task-based learning