Course Description

Course CodeCourse NameCreditsHours
5425500 Cultural Literacy 3.0 3
Description This course aims at boosting our students' cultural literacy as well as their awareness in the cultural application of literary knowledge. The ultimate goal is to direct our students' attention to the creative compositions of world culture fabrics, which require "cultural/literary background knowledge" as the base and "language communication skills" as the medium. Taking into account the scope and the depth of cultural literacy required for the students on the MA level, the course focuses on the essential topics drawn from three areas of literary studies: (1) historical periods, (2) genre, and (3) authors. It is eagerly expected that our students would immerse themselves deeply into these cultural literacy trainings so as to lay the foundation for their graduate studies.