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.