Spring 2027

Advanced Old English Literature

Intensive study of major Old English works like Beowulf, involving line-by-line translation and discussion of linguistic, thematic, and contextual issues. Primary texts are read in Old English.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jordan Zweck4.1/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2015: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2020: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Critique one or more major works of Old English through intensive close reading and translation.

  • Explore related linguistic, thematic or contextual issues.

  • 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.

  • Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate and pursue an original research question in the context of those gaps.

Source: UW Guide 1 UW Guide 2

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Prerequisites

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MEDIEVAL/​ENGL 520

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Professors

Spring 2027

Jordan Zweck

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2015: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2020: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JORDAN ZWECK is recorded teaching in Spring 2015, Spring 2020. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2015: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=6 letter grades); Spring 2020: 3.75 GPA, 83.3% A/AB (n=6 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Beowulf and Old English poetry
  • Linguistic, thematic, and contextual issues in Old English literature
  • Critical literature on Old English

Skills

  • Close reading and translation of Old English texts
  • Analysis of literary and cultural texts
  • Critical writing
  • Scholarly research and formulation of original research questions

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ENGL/MEDIEVAL 521 · Spring 2027

Advanced Old English Literature

Recorded 2026-10-14
ENGL/MEDIEVAL 521 · Spring 2027

Advanced Old English Literature

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