| Course Name |
(中) 英國文學:復辟與新古典時期(3511) |
| (Eng.) English Literature:Restoration and Neoclassical Periods |
| Offering Dept |
Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures |
| Course Type |
Required |
Credits |
3 |
Teacher |
CHENG CHUN-JUNG |
| Department |
Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures(N)Undergraduate |
Language |
English |
Semester |
2026-SPRING |
| Course Description |
To introduce the main drifts of literary works from Restoraion to the neo-classical period, covering Thomas More, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, W. Shakespeare, J. Donne, Ben Jonson, metaphical poets, J. Milton, J. Dryden, J. Swift, D. Defoe, S. Richardson, H. Fielding, L. Sterne, etc. |
| 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 |
| To help students get a grip upon the main ideas the major writers put into their literary works, and prepare them to have a clearer and better perspective on the Romantic period and the subsequent periods. |
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| Written Presentation |
| Attendance |
| Oral Presentation |
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| Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule |
| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
Introduction of the main cultural ideas in the Restoration and Neo-classical periods. |
| Week 2 |
Thomas More's Utopia |
| Week 3 |
Thomas More's Utopia and Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene |
| Week 4 |
Cultural concers like aging and drink in the Restoration and Neo-classical periods. |
| Week 5 |
Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe |
| Week 6 |
W. Shakespeare: sonnets 18, 73, 116, 138
Othello and Tempest |
| Week 7 |
Othello and Tempest |
| Week 8 |
John Donne: The Flea, The Canonization, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
Ben Jonson: Song to Celia |
| Week 9 |
Mid-term exam |
| Week 10 |
Robert Herrick: Corianna's Going-A-Maying, To the Virgins to Make Much of Time
Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress |
| Week 11 |
John Milton: Paradise Lost |
| Week 12 |
John Milton: Paradise Lost |
| Week 13 |
John Dryden: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
Jonathan Swift: A Description of a City Shower, A Modest Proposal, Gulliver's Travels |
| Week 14 |
Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Oliver Goldsmith: The Deserted Village |
| Week 15 |
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
Samuel Richardson: Clarissa |
| Week 16 |
Self-study upon the 18th novelists like Henry Fielding, Lawrence Sterne |
self-directed
learning |
03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia.
students have to learn how to find sources to help themselves to write understandable essays at the end of the semester. |
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| Evaluation |
| lectures and in-class discussion and quizes |
| Textbook & other References |
| Norton Anthology 11th version |
| Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website |
| kjcheng@dragon.mail.nchu.edu.tw |
| Office Hours |
| tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 7:10 |
| Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL) |
| 04.Quality Education 05.Gender Equality 10.Reduced Inequalities 16.Peace and Justice | include experience courses：N |
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