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Nov 24, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
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SGBH 325 - Epic Poetry4.00 credit hours
Epic poems - long narrative poems that arise out of a collaborative oral tradition - are central to literary cultures around the world, The Iliad and the Odyssey are the Western exemplars; in India, the Mahabarata and the Ramayana have a similar status. Along with these works, this course also covers epics from China and Scandinavia as well as scholarly background providing aesthetic and historical interpretations of the poems and the genre of the “epic” in general.
Prerequisite(s): One course in English, Shimer Humanities, Shimer Social Science or instructor consent.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Humanities, Global Understanding.
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