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Higher Education Department: St. Rita's College of Balingasag Balingasag, Misamis Oriental

This document provides an overview of a college course on world literature called "The Great Books". The course is designed to introduce students to influential texts from different cultures and have them compare how culture influences literature. It will also include a creative writing component. The course aims to allow students to discuss different cultural perspectives through literature. It outlines 9 units covering influential works from various regions and religions of the world, including assessments focused on analyzing the literature in its social contexts.

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Higher Education Department: St. Rita's College of Balingasag Balingasag, Misamis Oriental

This document provides an overview of a college course on world literature called "The Great Books". The course is designed to introduce students to influential texts from different cultures and have them compare how culture influences literature. It will also include a creative writing component. The course aims to allow students to discuss different cultural perspectives through literature. It outlines 9 units covering influential works from various regions and religions of the world, including assessments focused on analyzing the literature in its social contexts.

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St.

Rita’s College of Balingasag


Balingasag, Misamis Oriental
HIGHER EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

MODULE 8

Subject Code: GE 11
Course Title: The Great Books
Credit Units: 3 units
Course Description: Great Books is an honors-level, elective English course designed to
introduce students to world literature. Students will be assigned titles to
read from different areas of the world and will be expected to compare the
significance of the pieces from multiple cultural perspectives. The class
will also contain a creative writing component in which students will be
given the opportunity to express, develop, and refine their individual
creative voices. The goal of this course also is to allow students to drive
discussions about cultural perspectives of the world.

Course Outcomes:

CO1- Create your own definition of culture and analyze its impact on a particular country or region’s
literature.
CO2-Identify and describe major literary styles and genres from multiple parts of theworld.
CO3 -Identify the relationship between literature and its social context.
C04- Write interpretations of texts and/or issues in literary studies in which you:
○ Perform a reasonable close reading by analyzing relevant literary elements
(techniques, themes, forms/genres, stylistic choices, or other literary devices).
○ Make appropriate references to relevant texts.
CO5- Demonstrate how common or culturally specific heritages, perspectives,histories, and/or belief
systems influence writers and the forms or genres in which they write.
CO6- Analyze the importance of literature as it relates to its socio-cultural context and to
its “universal” appeal.
CO7- Demonstrate an awareness of the basic literary and cultural manifestations ofeach country or
region studied in this course.
CO8- Identify and analyze connections between different authors and art forms. CO9-
Identify the literary, cultural, historical, political impact of literary works across the
world.

Course Outline:
Unit 1: The Bible
Unit 2: Beowulf
Unit 3: Mahabarata
Unit 4: Crime and Punishment
Unit 5: The Heart of Darkness
Unit 6: Macbeth
Unit 7: Noli Me Tangere
Unit 8: Divine Comedy
Unit 9: Analects of Confucious

Grading System:

See Revised Handbook

Topic Divine
Comedy
Learning Objectives
At the end of this module, the students are expected to;
(i) Explain the general concept of Dante's Inferno
(ii) Identify each circle of Hell and its sin
(iii) Discuss the sin each circle of Hell imposed upon its occupants
(iv) Name the various characters found in Dante's Inferno and why they were there
(v) Express your stand about the concept of sin and evil

Introduction
The “Divine Comedy” is an important work of literature, because it helps to highlight the political
unsettlement and the emotional being and rationale of the people living during 14th century Italy.

The Divine Comedy is many different works all rolled up in one: it is an encyclopedia, an autobiography of a
soul, a prophetic vision, a summa, an epic journey, an extended love lyric, a quest for knowledge, and so on. It
is a poem of sin and redemption, of crime and punishment, of damnation and salvation--of human actions and
their eternal consequences as seen within the Divine Plan of the perfectly ordered universe. In the Inferno the
operation of Divine Justice is observed in the contrapasso, the law of just retribution for a sin, which assumes
a form appropriate to the sin itself. From the early fourteenth century to the present the poem has been the
object of intensive study and extensive commentary.
Time Allotment: 15 hours (1 week)
Core/Related Values and Biblical Passage
Core/Related Values: Faith- Prophetic Witness to Gospel Values

Biblical Passage: You, however, must teach what is appropriate to sound doctrine. 2 Teach the older men to
be temperate, worthy of respect, self-controlled, and sound in faith, in love and in endurance.- Titus 2:1
Learning Content
Excerpt and Summary from Inferno of Dante Allegrehie

Inferno opens on the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300. Traveling through a dark wood, Dante
Alighieri has lost his path and now wanders fearfully through the forest. The sun shines down on a mountain
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above him, and he attempts to climb up to it but finds his way blocked by three beasts—a leopard, a lion, and
a she-wolf. Frightened and helpless, Dante returns to the dark wood. Here he encounters the ghost of Virgil,
the great Roman poet, who has come to guide Dante back to his path, to the top of the mountain. Virgil says
that their path will take them through Hell and that they will eventually reach Heaven, where Dante’s beloved
Beatrice
awaits. He adds that it was Beatrice, along with two other holy women, who, seeing Dante lost in the wood,
sent Virgil to guide him.

Virgil leads Dante through the gates of Hell, marked by the haunting inscription “abandon all hope, you who
enter here” (III.7). They enter the outlying region of Hell, the Ante-Inferno, where the souls who in life could
not commit to either good or evil now must run in a futile chase after a blank banner, day after day, while
hornets bite them and worms lap their blood. Dante witnesses their suffering with repugnance and pity. The
ferryman Charon then takes him and his guide across the river Acheron, the real border of Hell. The First
Circle of Hell, Limbo, houses pagans, including Virgil and many of the other great writers and poets of
antiquity, who died without knowing of Christ. After meeting Horace, Ovid, and Lucan, Dante continues into
the Second Circle of Hell, reserved for the sin of Lust. At the border of the Second Circle, the monster Minos
lurks, assigning condemned souls to their punishments. He curls his tail around himself a certain number of
times, indicating the number of the circle to which the soul must go. Inside the Second Circle, Dante watches
as the souls of the Lustful swirl about in a terrible storm; Dante meets Francesca, who tells him the story of
her doomed love affair with Paolo da Rimini, her husband’s brother; the relationship has landed both in Hell.

In the Third Circle of Hell, the Gluttonous must lie in mud and endure a rain of filth and excrement. In the
Fourth Circle, the Avaricious and the Prodigal are made to charge at one another with giant boulders. The
Fifth Circle of Hell contains the river Styx, a swampy, fetid cesspool in which the Wrathful spend eternity
struggling with one another; the Sullen lie bound beneath the Styx’s waters, choking on the mud. Dante
glimpses Filippo Argenti, a former political enemy of his, and watches in delight as other souls tear the man to
pieces.

Virgil and Dante next proceed to the walls of the city of Dis, a city contained within the larger region of Hell.
The demons who guard the gates refuse to open them for Virgil, and an angelic messenger arrives from
Heaven to force the gates open before Dante. The Sixth Circle of Hell houses the Heretics, and there Dante
encounters a rival political leader named Farinata. A deep valley leads into the First Ring of the Seventh
Circle of Hell, where those who were violent toward others spend eternity in a river of boiling blood. Virgil
and Dante meet a group of Centaurs, creatures who are half man, half horse. One of them, Nessus, takes them
into the Second Ring of the Seventh Circle of Hell, where they encounter those who were violent toward
themselves (the Suicides). These souls must endure eternity in the form of trees. Dante there speaks with Pier
della Vigna.
Going deeper into the Seventh Circle of Hell, the travelers find those who were violent toward God (the
Blasphemers); Dante meets his old patron, Brunetto Latini, walking among the souls of those who were
violent toward Nature (the Sodomites) on a desert of burning sand. They also encounter the Usurers, those
who were violent toward Art.

The monster Geryon transports Virgil and Dante across a great abyss to the Eighth Circle of Hell, known as
Malebolge, or “evil pockets” (or “pouches”); the term refers to the circle’s division into various pockets
separated by great folds of earth. In the First Pouch, the Panderers and the Seducers receive lashings from
whips; in the second, the Flatterers must lie in a river of human feces. The Simoniacs in the Third Pouch hang
upside down in baptismal fonts while their feet burn with fire. In the Fourth Pouch are the Astrologists or
Diviners, forced to walk with their
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heads on backward, a sight that moves Dante to great pity. In the Fifth Pouch, the Barrators (those who
accepted bribes) steep in pitch while demons tear them apart. The Hypocrites in the Sixth Pouch must forever
walk in circles, wearing heavy robes made of lead. Caiphas, the priest who confirmed Jesus’ death sentence,
lies crucified on the ground; the other sinners tread on him as they walk. In the horrifying Seventh Pouch, the
Thieves sit trapped in a pit of vipers, becoming vipers themselves when bitten; to regain their form, they must
bite another thief in turn.

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In the Eighth Pouch of the Eighth Circle of Hell, Dante speaks to Ulysses, the great hero of Homer’s epics,
now doomed to an eternity among those guilty of Spiritual Theft (the False Counselors) for his role in
executing the ruse of the Trojan Horse. In the Ninth Pouch, the souls of Sowers of Scandal and Schism walk
in a circle, constantly afflicted by wounds that open and close repeatedly. In the Tenth Pouch, the Falsifiers
suffer from horrible plagues and diseases.

Virgil and Dante proceed to the Ninth Circle of Hell through the Giants’ Well, which leads to a massive drop
to Cocytus, a great frozen lake. The giant Antaeus picks Virgil and Dante up and sets them down at the
bottom of the well, in the lowest region of Hell. In Caina, the First Ring of the Ninth Circle of Hell, those who
betrayed their kin stand frozen up to their necks in the lake’s ice. In Antenora, the Second Ring, those who
betrayed their country and party stand frozen up to their heads; here Dante meets Count Ugolino, who spends
eternity gnawing on the head of the man who imprisoned him in life. In Ptolomea, the Third Ring, those who
betrayed their guests spend eternity lying on their backs in the frozen lake, their tears making blocks of ice
over their eyes. Dante next follows Virgil into Judecca, the Fourth Ring of the Ninth Circle of Hell and the
lowest depth. Here, those who betrayed their benefactors spend eternity in complete icy submersion.

A huge, mist-shrouded form lurks ahead, and Dante approaches it. It is the three-headed giant Lucifer,
plunged waist-deep into the ice. His body pierces the center of the Earth, where he fell when God hurled him
down from Heaven. Each of Lucifer’s mouths chews one of history’s three greatest sinners: Judas, the
betrayer of Christ, and Cassius and Brutus, the betrayers of Julius Caesar. Virgil leads Dante on a climb down
Lucifer’s massive form, holding on to his frozen tufts of hair. Eventually, the poets reach the Lethe, the river
of forgetfulness, and travel from there out of Hell and back onto Earth. They emerge from Hell on Easter
morning, just before sunrise.

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Learning Evaluation
Teaching – Learning Activities
TLA 1: Create a table and identify all the circles of hell then give a short description of each.

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TLA 2: Enumerate the characters in the Inferno, give a short description of each.

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TLA 3: Elaborate this statement: “How did Dante described Infernö .

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TLA: Enumerate the Literary Elements in the story:

Plot:
Author’s Background:
Theme:
Symbols:

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Assessment
Reflection Paper:
Guide question:

Write an essay consisting of 150-300 words with this topic: As a student and a servant of God in
your different religions, how do you defined SIN and Hell? And Do you think these played a role
in your lives?

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Assignment:
1: Make a reflection tonight, enumerate the sins you have done from least to the most. Then , reflect
about why did you do it, and how will you be able to cope up with it that it will never happen
again.

(This part of assignment will be confidential)

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Rubrics

References

Cayao, Erlinda, and Sebastian, Evelyn (2006). Readings in the World Literature. C and E Publishing. Quezon City

Singh, Rosario (2011). Anthology of World Literature for College. Anvil Publishing. Mandaluyong City.Philippines
https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list
https://study.com/academy/lesson/dantes-inferno-lesson-plan.html
http://www.bookrags.com/lessonplan/divinecomedy/#gsc.tab=0 https://www.scribd.com/doc/292672796/the-divine-
comedy-unit-plan https://www.pixton.com/schools/teacher-resources/lesson-plans/dantes-inferno
https://www.varsitytutors.com/englishteacher/dante https://humanities.wisc.edu/assets/misc/Inferno_Guide_-
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_February_2015.pdf https://www.storyboardthat.com/lesson-plans/dantes-inferno-by-dante-alighieri
https://www.enotes.com/topics/dantes-inferno/lesson-plans

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