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LITERATURE IN THE RENAISSANCE COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code	Name of the Course Unit	Semester	In-Class Hours (T+P)	Credit	ECTS Credit
ELL424	LITERATURE IN THE RENAISSANCE	5	3	3	5

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week	Preparatory	Topics(Subjects)	Method
1	-	Introduction to the course and discussion on the topics of the following weeks	Lecture & Discussion
2	Reading the Material Assigned	Discussion on the characteristics of the Renaissance: secularism, individualism, humanism, aesthetic pleasure, colloquial languages instead of Greek & Latin	Lecture & Discussion
3	Reading the Material Assigned	Discussion on the social and political background: the decline of feudalism (and of aristocracy) and the rise of the bourgeoisie & the decline of the Catholic Church and the emergence of Protestantism & the Medici family	Lecture & Discussion
4	Reading the Material Assigned	Selections from Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defence of Poesy	Lecture & Discussion
5	Reading the Material Assigned	Selections from Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defence of Poesy	Lecture & Discussion
6	Reading the Material Assigned	Selections from Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince	Lecture & Discussion
7	Reading the Material Assigned	Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia	Lecture & Discussion
8	-	MID-TERM EXAM	-
9	Reading the Material Assigned	Sir Thomas Moore’s Utopia	Lecture & Discussion
10	Reading the Material Assigned	Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus	Lecture & Discussion
11	Reading the Material Assigned	Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus	Lecture & Discussion
12	Reading the Material Assigned	Selected sonnets from Shakespeare	Lecture & Discussion
13	Reading the Material Assigned	Selected sonnets from Shakespeare	Lecture & Discussion
14	Reading the Material Assigned	Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night	Lecture & Discussion
15	Reading the Material Assigned	Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night	Lecture & Discussion
16	-	FINAL EXAM	-
17	-	FINAL EXAM	-