Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

EFK 306 — Literary History, Theory and Criticism

EFK department course · Nigerian universities

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What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

At the end of this course, students should have learnt to:
appreciate literary works constructively
demonstrate valid judgments with the use of theories
explain meaning of theory in literary criticism
examine the advantages and disadvantages of adopting foreign theories in analysing african literature
appraise types of literary criticism theories, and

Course contents

Literary history among the Africans before the advent of colonization, in relation to oral poetry. Traditional drama and prose forms. Types of literary criticism in the pre-colonial era – preperformance criticism, communal editing, post-performance criticism etc. Modern criticism and the use of theories.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study EFK 306.

EFK 306 — Literary History, Theory and Criticism

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

Course contents

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