Spring 2027

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

A study of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in original Middle English, exploring its responses to medieval literary, social, political, and spiritual issues.

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2019: 3.28 GPA, 56.5% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2020: 3.12 GPA, 53.8% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify and critique content, style, and critical issues in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

  • Recognize the work's relation to key cultural and historical issues in its own time.

  • Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance.

  • Leverage writing as a mode of learning and means of conveying critical analysis.

  • Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs.

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Prerequisites

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ENGL/MEDIEVAL 427

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2019: 3.28 GPA, 56.5% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Fall 2020: 3.12 GPA, 53.8% A/AB (n=13 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Original Middle English readings
  • Literary, social, political, and spiritual issues of the medieval period

Skills

  • Critique content and style in Chaucer's work
  • Connect literary works to historical and cultural contexts
  • Convey critical analysis through written work

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Dataset & model

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