2021-2022 Academic Catalog 
    
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2021-2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LITE 223 - Shakespeare

3 CR
A study of selected Shakespearean plays designed to increase the reader’s appreciation and understanding of Shakespeare’s art.

Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - Applied Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Humanities and Fine Arts
Course Learning Outcomes:
  1. Demonstrate an understanding of dramatic conventions in Shakespeare’s plays.
  2. Utilize critical analysis strategies to deconstruct and interpret specific passages, scenes, and sonnets.
  3. Demonstrate an understanding of historical, political, cultural, and religious factors that helped shape Elizabethan life and drama.
  4. Explain why some scholars view Shakespeare’s body of work as the secular bible of the western world.