TESC Non-wetern Literature requirement

[DSH2007]

Re: Lynn14's Post #20

I just received a response from ASU this morning: "this course is unavailable for registration at this time."

[Lynn14]

I e-mailed TESC's registrar's office asking if they will accept Charter Oak's ENG-302 "World Literature for Children" to met the non-western literature requirement. They opened a "ticket number" on my request and assigned my e-mail to a women in TESC's Heavin School of Arts and Sciences. She said that the course would not be accepted. The exact reply was, "This would not be considered a nonwestern literature course nor is it an upper level course. It can be used to satisfy the humanities general education requirement."

I then replied back, asking if they would accept BYU's ENGL-350 "The Bible as Literature" course to fulfill the requirement. Her reply was that I would need to enroll to find out the answer.

I am not sure if the woman answering was just irritated that I had asked another question without sending a new e-mail to create a new ticket number. Should I just send another e-mail and hope that a different person is assigned to reply?

The main problem is that if they will not accept the BYU course as meeting the non-western lit. requirement, my daughter my consider graduating from another school. So she would not want to unnecessarily pay the huge enrollment fee at TESC without knowing whether the course would be accepted.

[sanantone]

I wouldn't be surprised if the BYU course is not accepted as non-western literature. The Bible and Christianity are a major part of western culture. When you study western civilization, you study societies as far east and south as Egypt and the Middle East (cradle of civilization). The New Testament was written in Greek.

[Daithi]

I was looking for something else when I came across these courses --

JAPAN 301: Japanese Reading and Culture (4 credits $652)
SPAN 441: Survey of Spanish Literature (3 credits $489) [This might fall under the Western rubric.]

They are offered at the BYU online site.

[Lynn14]

Does the non-western literature requirement have to be an upper-level course, or will a 200-level fulfill it?

[happydayruth]

For my BA in English through TESC, I just got Middle Eastern Literature from APU approved for my non-western literature requirement. Course code: LITR365