Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, students will demonstrate the ability to:

• Describe general trends in Chinese literary history from the Yuan dynasty through the present;
• Situate specific genres, works, and authors within a literary historical framework;
• Critically analyze literary texts using an appropriate repertoire of concepts, terms, skills, and approaches;
• Communicate ideas and critical analysis in both oral and written modalities;
• Assess and respond constructively to the ideas and analyses of others.

Students who write the final research paper (optional for 463, required for 563) will further demonstrate the ability to:

• Access and assess secondary scholarship in the field;
• Systematically present and support an argument in written form with reference to primary and secondary sources;
• Use the language, formatting, and citation styles appropriate to academic writing in the humanities.