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May 20, 2026
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ENG 1700 - Literature and a Life Worth Living
In this class, we explore words to live by: how literary texts in multiple genres (including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and/or drama) can help us learn what it means to have a life worth living. We consider works of literature through literary analysis by thinking about form, historical context, and content, and also think about what we might learn from them as part of a centuries-long conversation about what it means to be a human being in the world.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Pillar: Humanities: Text and Contexts
Thematic Arches: - Global Connections
- Society & Justice
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Course Transferability: OTM course: TMAH Arts & Humanities
College Credit Plus: Level 1
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to describe works of various literary genres using appropriate literary terminology.
- Students will be able to differentiate between approaches to texts that rely on their own affective experience of a text, the text’s methods of meaning-making, and the text’s message.
- Students will be able to recognize how historical and/or cultural contexts for writing present authors with different ways of expressing existential questions.
- Students will be able to analyze literary texts using close reading and relevant contextual information.
- Students will be able to articulate how genre difference affects the way that existential questions are asked, considered, and/or answered.
- Students will be able to make connections between literary texts based on non-historical philosophical positions that they implicitly or explicitly take.
- Students will be able to explain how affinities between texts help us to understand the meaning of the texts themselves.
- Students will be able to reflect on how existential questions and answers in literary texts affect their own sense of what makes a good or worthy life.
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