HON 310 - Great Books: World Literature

Credit Hours: 3

Delves into the history of western literature, beginning with the Greeks, moving to the Romans, to the Medieval era, and into the works of Renaissance authors. Explores the interrelation between form and content, the development of generic characteristics, and the formation of Christian imagination in these periods. Introduces works such as the Odyssey, the Oresteia, Medea, Antigone, the Aeneid, Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, and Shakespeare selections. Emphasizes the practice the craft of close reading.

Prerequisite: E.P. Hart Honors Program