An-Najah Staff

The general dissatisfaction with the standard of the students at the English Department at An-Najah National University (Palestine led the members of the Department to cram more literature courses into the plan haphazardly and without any systematic studies thinking that this would rescue the situation and upgrade the students' standard. This paper investigates the effectives, validity and appropriateness of the literature courses taught at the English Department. It presents systematically the views of the proponents of teaching literature and those who oppose the inclusion of literature courses in the English departments' plan. It also investigates the students' attitude towards the literature courses taught at present and whether these courses match the students' needs and objectives or not. For this purpose a questionnaire was prepared and distributed among the students of the English Department, data was analyzed, results revealed and accordingly recommendations were provided.