This course engages students in studying and interpreting selected works of literary masterpieces from the Enlightenment to the 20th Century. Emphasis is placed on this period's representative works, writers, and global perspectives, as well as on the literary, cultural, historical and philosophical forces that shaped these works and are reflected in them. Importance is also placed on reading, writing, and discussions as approaches to identifying text-to-text, text-to-self, and text-to-world connections and expressing knowledge of the course content.