Recent ProfessorsNot yet assignedRecent SemestersNo scheduled sections on recordClass SizeNot publishedCredits5PrerequisiteEligibility for college-level composition ( ENGL C1000 or C1000H or ESLL 26 ), as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method. Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionA survey of literature beginning with the 1798 publication of Lyrical Ballads, through the Romantic period, Victorian period, 20th-century modernism and postmodernism, to the present. Texts discussed and analyzed within historical, sociocultural, philosophical, political, legal, and aesthetic contexts, integrating theories of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, socioeconomic class and labor (including slavery), colonialism and immigration, national origin, mixed heritages, religion/spirituality, and ability. Specific to this honors course: a higher level of sophisticated scholarship through extensive research and literature review, critical essays, and opportunities for scholarly presentation, student-generated discussions, and self-directed projects. Rigorous application and analysis of theoretical paradigms as applied across these contexts in analysis of literary works.