The English Language Department at the College of Education for Human Sciences at the University of Basra organized a seminar on teaching literary subjects in the English Language Department.
The seminar aims to introduce methods for teaching literature and its role in enriching the English language and foreign culture.
The seminar presented by Professor Dr. Majeed Hamid Jassim included an explanation of the importance of teaching literature at the university level in English language departments as it represents the raw material that the learner takes as a model for learning and enriching his English language and learning foreign culture. The seminar showed that literature represents a mirror reflecting human life represented by a set of meanings that it seeks. To achieve it, language and culture are inseparable from each other