Students will read a selection of literature from the mid-renaissance to the present. They will recognize the major characteristics in the literature of various periods and complete basic written analysis of selected works. Texts will be selected from major literary figures in the Western canon and across the world, such as Moliere, Voltaire, Rousseau, Franklin, Equiano, Wollstonecraft, de Gournay, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Camus, Lessing, Eliot, Achebe, Neruda, Garcia- Marquez, Erdrich, Kincaid, and Lahiri Significant authors as well as themes, literary genres, and historical and philosophical movements will be examined through world literature masterpieces. LIT2120 is a writing course. Students must earn a minimum grade of C to meet the requirements of the Gordon Rule for writing. LIT2120 meets the International/Intercultural competency requirement.