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    UPVM Literature 2

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    This course offers 3 units on world literature revolving around themes of human identity and purpose. It will be taught at UP Miagao and UP Iloilo campuses. The course objectives are to develop students' cultural understanding and ability to connect contemporary issues to historical texts. Students will analyze works from various cultures and time periods exploring concepts like identity, society, love, and death. Assessment includes exams, papers, quizzes, and a final paper or exam.

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    This course offers 3 units on world literature revolving around themes of human identity and purpose. It will be taught at UP Miagao and UP Iloilo campuses. The course objectives are to develop students' cultural understanding and ability to connect contemporary issues to historical texts. Students will analyze works from various cultures and time periods exploring concepts like identity, society, love, and death. Assessment includes exams, papers, quizzes, and a final paper or exam.

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    This course offers 3 units on world literature revolving around themes of human identity and purpose. It will be taught at UP Miagao and UP Iloilo campuses. The course objectives are to develop students' cultural understanding and ability to connect contemporary issues to historical texts. Students will analyze works from various cultures and time periods exploring concepts like identity, society, love, and death. Assessment includes exams, papers, quizzes, and a final paper or exam.

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    Lit 2:

    Literatures of the World


    Selected Readings in Classical World Literature
    revolving around the themes of human identity,
    purpose and identity.
    3 units

    DESCRIPTION:

    CREDIT:
    RGEP CLUSTER:
    DIVISION/COLLEGE

    THAT

    OFFERS THE COURSE:

    Division of Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences

    Campus where Course


    is Offered:

    UP Miagao and UP Iloilo campuses

    Course Objectives:

    In this course, the student is expected:


    1. To acquire a broad intellectual and cultural horizon in
    a. the discovery of the roots of distinctive cultural and personal
    identity as expressed or reflected in classic world literature; and
    b. the exploration of the timeless issues that have preoccupied
    humanity throughout the ages and across the great civilizations
    of the world.
    2. To develop the capacity for independent, creative and critical thinking
    in the process of making connections between the contemporary
    human situation and human experience across time.
    3. To develop his ability to integrate and/or adapt the knowledge and
    skills acquired from the various disciplines in the analysis of various
    literary texts on various subjects and forms.

    Topic Outline:

    I.

    No. of hours: 3 hrs. per week

    God, Nature, and Identity: Lessons in Identity


    A. The Great Myths of Humankind
    a. Selections from Genesis
    b. Selections from the Koran
    c. Selections from the Bhagavad Gita
    B. Explorations on the human question
    a. Homer, The Odyssey
    b. Cervantes, Don Quixote de la Mancha
    c. Dante, Divina Comedia
    d. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
    e. Goethe, Faust
    f. Confucius, The Analects

    II. The Social Contract, the individual and the community


    A. Lady Murasaki, Tale of Genji
    B. Anton Chekov, The Cherry Orchard

    C. Frank Kafka, A Report to the Academy


    D. Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince
    E. Guy de Maupassant, Two Little Soldiers
    F. Virginia Woolf, The New Dress
    G. Margaret Atwood, Rape Fantasies
    H. Amy Tan, Two Kinds
    I. Khushuant Singh, Karma
    J. Dylan Thomas, The Hand that Signed the Paper; Pablo Neruda,
    Walking Around
    III. Love, sin, death, and other human dilemmas
    A. The poems of Sappho
    B. William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming; T.S. Eliot, Love Song of
    J.
    Alfred Prufrock; Rainer Maria Rilke, The Panther; Federico Garcia
    Lorca,
    Song of the Barren Orange Tree; Pablo Neruda, Tonight I
    Can Write the Saddest Lines
    C. The poems of Basho
    D. The poems of African poets
    E. African folktale, The Leopard
    F. Sahir Ludhianvi, Taj Mahal
    G. Isabel Allende, Two Words and Clarisa from Eva Luna
    Course Requirements /Grading Scheme:

    Two essay exams. 25% each


    Short papers... 20%
    Quizzes/group activities 10%
    Final paper or exam.. 20%
    Total:
    100%

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