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Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'

Introduction to Middle English and close reading of selections from The Canterbury Tales (Not offered 2023-24).

Prerequisite: English 221 or 250 or consent of instructor.

1 to 2 units

Previously Featured Offering

Oct. 2019
Instructor: Re Evitt
Chaucer challenges the social hierarchies and gender boundaries drawn by medieval culture. Students will develop a working knowledge of Middle English that will allow them to think deeply and critically about the poetry they’re reading. Collaboration with Deborah Thornton, Executive Director of the Imagination Celebration.
Regula Evitt’s Block 3 Chaucer class visited the Portal in downtown Colorado Springs to meet and ask questions of people in portals in Nigeria and Iraq as a part of some of their discussions in the Chaucer class.
Regula Evitt’s Block 3 Chaucer class visited the Portal in downtown Colorado Springs to meet and ask questions of people in portals in Nigeria and Iraq as a part of some of their discussions in the Chaucer class.
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