EN402 Chaucer
Prerequisites: EN 212, EN 212
This course will examine Chaucer’s efforts to create sustained fiction in English through his most ambitious and experimental work, The Canterbury Tales. By studying a text whose author sought to capture every facet of medieval English life, we will learn a great deal about the people living during this period, including the genres of literature they preferred and the language that they spoke. We will learn about Middle English, its sounds and its poetry, as we read engaging stories that range from the shockingly ribald to the sapiential and sacred. Ultimately, we will find out what earned Chaucer the title "Father of English Literature."
Prerequisite
EN211 [minimum grade = D-] and
EN212 [minimum grade = D-] or
EN211 [transfer credit] and
EN212 [transfer credit]