If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
- Read a piece of literature from another time and place and know how to find background information to help you understand, explain, and enjoy it;
- Write about two pieces of literature from different times and places, explaining how they are the same and how they are different;
- Recognize some of the literary traditions that carry themes and ideas from one time and place to the next, creating an intellectual history of human civilization.