Recent SemestersSummer 2026, Summer 2025, Summer 2024Class Size30 studentsCredits3PrerequisitePrerequisite Prerequisite: Successful completion of English 1500 or 1501 with a grade of `C? or better; 48 hours lecture. 96 Outside of class hours; (144 Total Student Learning Hours) 3 Units Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2DescriptionThis course is a comparative study of selected works, in translation and in English, of literature from around the world, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and other areas, from antiquity to the mid or late seventeenth century. Course emphasizes applying critical thinking to literature, investigating cultural contexts, applying reasoned analysis, comparing themes and structures of different texts, research, and practicing academic conventions of literary discourse in writing. 