ENG* 245: Early Western Literature

3 Credits
(Formerly ENG 251)
This course introduces students to Western World literature from the Classical age to the Renaissance. Students will read works by authors such as Homer, Sophocles, the Biblical writers, Virgil, St. Augustine, Chaucer, Dante, and Shakespeare. Students will examine narrative and poetic strategies and discuss such lasting issues as the nature of good and evil, love and war, heroism and cowardice, salvation and damnation.
Prerequisites: ENG* 110 or permission of the instructor.
Offered: Fall