Great Books: Literature

The aim of this core course is to familiarize students with various literary genres, develop their ability to understand and appreciate literary texts and introduce them to some of the great works of world literary tradition. This is not a survey course that would attempt to cover dozens of classical literary works essential to world literary canon; instead, the aim of the course is to develop intellectual skills and predispositions which would prompt students to continue reading literature and derive inspiration, insights, and enjoyment from it for the rest of their lives.

For successful course completion, the students are required to read all literary texts. The course is divided into 4 modules. Each module is divided into 2 weeks, each week includes 1 lecture and 1 seminar, totaling up to 8 lectures and 8 seminars for the whole course. Each module will be taught by a different SAS professor.