| Course Name |
(中) 英國文學:復辟與新古典時期(2060) |
| (Eng.) English Literature:Restoration and Neoclassical Periods |
| Offering Dept |
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures |
| Course Type |
Required |
Credits |
3 |
Teacher |
HSIEH,HSIN-YI |
| Department |
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate |
Language |
中/英文 |
Semester |
2026-SPRING |
| Course Description |
This is a one-semester course, open to second-year (and above) undergraduates. The subject devotes to a historical and cultural survey of English Literature from the late sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. With references to political changes and artistic movements in England, this course aims to guide students towards a critical exploration of the paradigm shifts as well as the continuity in language, genre, content, form, style, et cetera that had occurred to certain literary works composed especially during the late English Renaissance, Restoration, and Neoclassical periods. |
| Prerequisites |
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self-directed learning in the course |
Y |
| Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) |
Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives |
| Course Objectives |
Competency Indicators |
Ratio(%) |
Teaching Methods |
Assessment Methods |
| The instructor will encourage and help students to preview the chosen texts ranging from William Shakespeare's plays to some masterpieces by the English writers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Both in-class and out-class individual or group activities will take students through some interactive tasks so as to help them uncover a picture of the past and rethink its connection to the present. |
| 1.Foreign language skills |
| 2.Professional expertise |
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| Lecturing |
| topic Discussion/Production |
| Exercises |
| Discussion |
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| Written Presentation |
| Attendance |
| Oral Presentation |
| Assignment |
| Study Outcome |
| Quiz |
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| Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule |
| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
A. General Introduction & Course Orientation
B. Introduction to the Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)
C. Grouping
(Ps. A more detailed version of syllabus will be introduced in class and uploaded to NCHU iLearning when the new semester commences.) |
| Week 2 |
A. Introduction to the Sixteenth Century (1485-1603)
B. William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (Selected Scenes)
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| Week 3 |
William Shakespeare: Twelfth Night (Selected Scenes) |
| Week 4 |
Introduction to the Early Seventeenth Century (1603-1660) |
| Week 5 |
John Donne: Selected Songs and Sonnets |
| Week 6 |
Francis Bacon’s Essays: “Of Marriage and Single Life”
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| Week 7 |
Introduction to John Milton’s Paradise Lost and some selected lines from Book 1 |
| Week 8 |
Introduction to the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (1663-1785) |
| Week 9 |
Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Selected Passages) |
| Week 10 |
A. Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Selected Passages)
B. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal (Selected Passages)
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| Week 11 |
Alexander Pope:
A. An Essay on Criticism & An Essay on Man (Selected Lines)
B. The Rape of the Lock (Selected Lines) |
| Week 12 |
A. Print Culture and the Rise of the Novel
B. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
(Selected Passages) |
| Week 13 |
A. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (Selected Passages)
B. Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language (Selected Passages)
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| Week 14 |
Final Project Preparation
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| Week 15 |
Final Project Presentation |
| Week 16 |
Final Result (Online) |
self-directed
learning |
02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.
03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia.
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| Evaluation |
A. Attendance, Pop Tasks, and Class Participation 40 %
B. Weekly Quizzes 20%
C. Final Project 40%
-- Individual Visualizing Poetry (15%)
-- Group Project (25%) |
| Textbook & other References |
1. Greenblatt, Stephen, gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 10th/11th ed. Vols. B & C. New York: Norton, 2018/2024. (available at the Caves Books on campus or on the website~ http://www.mytb.com.tw/)
2. Some supplementary materials will be available on iLearning. |
| Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website |
| NCHU iLearning (https://lms2020.nchu.edu.tw/) |
| Office Hours |
| 15:00-17:00, Tuesday |
| Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL) |
| 01.No Poverty 02.Zero Hunger 03.Good Health and Well-Being 04.Quality Education 05.Gender Equality 16.Peace and Justice | include experience courses：N |
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