English

This course presents British and Irish literature through texts related to historical periods and major aesthetic currents in the history of Britain and Ireland. It provides tools for analysis, reading, and argumentation for written and oral expression. The course covers the methods of literary criticism and enriches literary culture through the reading of canonical texts. 

This course examines the literature of the people who lived in the British Isles in the Middle Ages (c. 500-1500), including: the transformations of myth and legend in this period; the study of different medieval approaches to storytelling; intersections between history and the imagination; the treatment of gender roles and relations; and Christian influences on pagan stories.

The six-week summer lab research program at National Taiwan University places students in various science, engineering and social science research labs and/or projects under the supervision of faculty. Students spend approximately 30 hours per week in lab activities.

This first-semester course introduces students to the history of literature in Scotland in English and Scots, covering two periods of its great flourishing: at the Stuart court of the late 14th and 15th centuries, and in the Romantic period of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The focus is on how questions of literary form relate to the social and intellectual context in which the text was written and read; that is, on how the text's formal achievement reflects the institutions which made it possible and the ideas which made it meaningful. The course encourages students to extend their essay writing skills through engagement with critical material.