This course on Literature and Ideas enables students to acquire new critical perspectives and insights on issues about the material world and competing human, cultural, environmental and historical experiences. The guideline which is resourced from the philosophy of the course programme, is designed to challenge and intrigue students on both literary and critical issues. Students will study how to intersect the determinism of basic infrastructures in civilization and competing notions of ethical ideals and world views; it will enable them to juxtapose economism and literary readings. In this way, they should be able to critically evaluate ideas and evolve new skills of analysis, thinking and persuasion in both oral, written and digital media. These readings will endow them with the understandings and vision they need to foster new patterns of productive thinking and advance persuasive worldviews in today's highly competitive universe of ideas.
The readings of literature will be drawn from a diverse range of authors, periods, genres and discourses in order to promote interpretations that expand ideas, challenge conservative modes of thinking, enlarge perceptions and create new knowledge experiences that can enrich and preserve their lives.
Students are required to read lectures and do assignments online as well as attend classes whenever scheduled in the face to face encounters. They have to complete assignments and other exercises that can help them to develop critical knowledge patterns and skills via mid-Semester and end-Semester papers, oral participation in class, digital feedbacks on quizzes and final examination. Arguments in papers submitted by groups or individuals must be well supported by intelligent and logical debates.
The code of students' conduct for this course insists on professional behaviour and academic honesty, and avoidance of plagiarism, cheating or fraud.
Reading materials and lectures are designed to complement each other