Part of the main philosophy in preparing students to teach English as a subject, is to start students with the requirement of what Harold Bloom calls deep reading. Why? Because far too often English teachers arriving into early career have not read widely nor deeply. Hence this course, and each unit, has an expectation that students will read, as a rough measure, around about one set text per week over the course of a semester, including breaks. By the end of the course, you will have read and absorbed many of the signature texts of the English language, making you expertly literate, and able to read and interpret a vast range of other English texts. This subject enables students to grasp key elements of English literature from the 17th- 19th Centuries, through reading, studying and contextualizing many key texts. It is the sister unit to English 101, the study of English literature (and some of its key precursors) from Classical times through to the early 17th Century.
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