Literature

Open only to freshmen. This is a freshman seminar. Students are given the opportunity to learn how to design, implement, and evaluate different models of high-impact practices of community organizing. Successful participation and completion of this course prepares students to become active citizens by promoting civic engagement and social responsibility. Faculty: Staff

Prerequisite: One W1 course with a minimum grade of C. Declared Literature majors or minors may enroll in the course without a W1 (by Permission of Instructor). Students will be introduced to a variety of techniques for analyzing literature. They will also be introduced to a range of genres. Some popular critical perspectives will be examined. Faculty: Literature Faculty

An introduction to fiction through reading in the short stories and novels of international writers. Faculty: STAFF

Readings in a wide spectrum of drama from tragedy to comedy, plus an analysis of the changing nature of the genre. Faculty: STAFF

Close readings of American and British poems, with an emphasis on the language of poetry focusing upon image, metaphor, and other figures of poetic speech. Some practice in oral interpretation of selected poems. Faculty: STAFF

Independent Study in Literature

International/multicultural course (I). Pre-1700 course. (Cross-listed LANG 2100.) European literary tradition from its beginnings (Homer/Greek tragedy) to the Middle Ages (Boccaccio, Chaucer, Dante) with concentration on the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. Intent to show historical and thematic developments. Faculty: STAFF

Pre-1700 course. Literary Interpretation Course and British Literature Course. A survey of British Literature, from Beowulf to Samuel Johnson, considering authors and historical contexts. Faculty: A. MIYASHIRO, T. KINSELLA

1700-1900 Course. Literary Interpretation Course and British Literature Course. A survey of major texts and movements in British Literature, from 1800 to the present. British Lit I is not a prerequisite. Faculty: E. AUGUST

1700-1900 Course. Literary Interpretation Course and American Literature Course. Major authors and literary periods of American literature from the colonial period to the Civil War. Faculty: D. GUSSMAN, A. HOLTON

1900-present Course. Literary Interpretation Course and American Literature Course. Readings and discussions of significant American authors from late 19th century through the 20th century. American Lit I is not a prerequisite. Faculty: K. JACOBSON, Literature Faculty

1900-present Course, Literary Interpretation Course. Introduction to the history and major genres of children's literature, such as the folktale, the literary fairy tale, children's poetry, picture books, modern fantasy, contemporary realistic fiction, and historical fiction. Close readings of major American and international children's books. This course may be offered in sections with a W2 designation. Faculty: M. Hussong

1900-present Course. Literary Interpretation Course and American Literature Course. This course will introduce students to important works and trends in American fiction since the 1950s, considering how diverse writers grapple with issues of order and freedom, community and difference, as they relate to individuals, family, society, and to the art of narrative. Faculty: K. JACOBSON, N. LONG

In this course, students will read and discuss young adult literature historically geared towards an adolescent audience, now read largely by adults. Writing assignments will focus on interrogating and analyzing major coming-of-age themes of the genre, including friendship, sexuality, religion, culture and race, sexual and gender identity, drug and alcohol abuse, etc. Creative writing assignments will be assigned at the discretion of the specific instructor: inquire via email before registering.

Students will read and discuss works of international contemporary literature. Writing assignments will ask students to interrogate and analyze social structures in historical and geo-political contexts. Genres may include the novel, poetry, memoir, long journalism, cross-genre, graphic novel, and culturally specific subgenres of text. Creative writing assignments may be assigned.

Prerequisite: One W1 course with a minimum grade of C. Literary Interpretation course. Students will be introduced to a variety of techniques for analyzing literature. They will also be introduced to a range of genres. Some popular critical perspectives will be examined. Faculty: Literature Faculty

International/Multicultural Course (I). Ethnic/Postcolonial Literature Course and British Literature Course. This course will focus on 19th- and 20th-century fiction and the ways in which it illuminates and is illuminated by the history of the British empire in Africa and India. Novels by such writers as Rudyard Kipling, R.L. Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and E.M. Forster will present the evolving imperial view while those by such writers as Salman Rushdie, Gita Meta, Chinua Achebe and Buchi Emecheta will present an alternative vision of the British empire and its aftermath in their countries. Faculty: L. Honaker

1900-present Course and Literary Interpretation Course. This course will look at the invention and evolution of the detective figure and genre in 19th- and 20th-century English and American fiction. Authors under study will include Poe, Doyle, Collins, Christie, Chandler, Paretsky, Mosely, and Grafton. Faculty: L. HONAKER

Prerequisite: Open only to Literature major and minors. LITT 1100 or LITT 2114 Literary Interpretation or Permission of Instructor. This course introduces students to the evaluation and use of scholarly resources, electronic as well as traditional library materials. Students conduct directed research on selected primary works within critical and cultural contexts.

Literary Interpretation Course. "The Bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave" (Hanns Bohatta, German Bibliographer). Where does the obsession for the book as physical object intersect with the drive to create literature, and to read it? What is the nature of the author's urge to put experience into print or the reader's urge to experience through print? This course explores these questions and others by reading works across a range of literary genres and by reading accounts of the evolution of the modern book. Faculty: T. KINSELLA

(Cross-listed LANG 2127.) Pre-1700 Course. A study of Greek and Roman novels, a frequently neglected but very interesting and once very popular literary genre of later antiquity. Examination of the five Hellenistic novels, which are considered the core of the genre, as well as the two most important Roman novels, Petronius' Satyricon and Apuleius' Golden Ass. Faculty: D. ROESSEL, K. PANAGAKOS

(Cross-listed LANG 2130.) Pre-1700 Course. Reading and discussion of ancient comedies of different styles and periods. We will examine a few Greek plays by Aristophanes (high classical period, <i>Ancient Comedy</i>), one play by Menander (4th-3rd century BCE, New Comedy), and a number of Roman Comedies by <i>Plautus</i> and <i>Terence</i>. Classical comedies reflect as vividly as no other literary genre everyday life in the Ancient world. The plays of Aristophanes depict the people of Antiquity in bright colors against the background of historical events of the time. Menander's work turns more to private life at a time of rapid change in Athens. We will conclude the course with a number of Roman plays inhabited by a number of characters -- evil masters, sly slaves, innocent maidens, and young men hopelessly in love -- that set the standards for Renaissance and Modern comedy. Faculty: D. ROESSEL

American Literature Course. What makes a book great? Who decides? Can certain ideas or themes be considered specifically American? This course will explore these and other questions by looking at the role novels have played in the development of American Society, and at the roles race and gender and culture play in the construction of aesthetic values, literary form, and meaning. Faculty: D. GUSSMAN

(Cross-listed LANG 2134.) 1900-present Course. This course will examine how modern (and ancient) Greece and Greeks have been viewed by modern authors. We will examine a number of works such as L. Durrell's "Prospero's Cell," N. Kazantzakis' "Zorba the Greek," H. Miller's "The Colossus of Maroussi," "Corelli's Mandolin" by L. de Bernières and a few more.

Pre-1700 Course. Not open to those with credit for LITT/LANG 3202 This is a course about stories, united by the theme of change, starting with Ovid’s epic The Metamorphosis, and coming down through The Velveteen Rabbit and numerous film adaptations. Faculty: STAFF

International/multicultural course (I), Literary Interpretation Course and Gender/ Sexuality Course. WGSS elective course. Reading and discussion of writing by women in English from the Middle Ages to the present. This course explores women's literature in relation to literary and historical contexts, including the question of women's literature as a separate tradition. Faculty: D. GUSSMAN

1900-present Course. Literary Interpretation Course and American Literature Course. The course examines the development of the short story in the U. S., with a focus on both formal and thematic issues such as national and individual identity. Faculty: D. GUSSMAN

The Hero in American Drama explores the development of the archetype in light of the development of an "American" national identity, from the early Federal period through the late twentieth century. Over the course of the semester, we will read a number of plays from different historic eras and consider the ways that the Hero character expresses and comments on the significant social issues of the time. We will also explore the way that the definition of "Hero" has evolved over time and has become, in contemporary American drama, a problematic issue in and of itself. Faculty: M. MALLETT

1900-present Course, Literary Interpretation Course, American Literature Course, and Gender/Sexuality Course. WGSS Elective Course. This course surveys a range of family dramas, such as plays, short fiction, novels and films. We will examine how the various stories’ family structures reflect and shape individual and national identities. Faculty: K. JACOBSON

1700-1900 Course, Literary Interpretation Course, American Literature Course and Ethnic/Postcolonial Literature Course. This course introduces students to major African American texts from the 18th century to the present. We will pay particular attention to the historical, social, and literary contexts from which these texts emerge, and on which they comment. Faculty: A. HOLTON

International/Multicult Course Pre-1700 Course. The course will examine Greek tragedy and its influence on modern drama. The readings will come from the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides – we will pay particular attention to staging and attend some rehearsals of a current theatre production. Faculty: STAFF

American Literature Course, 1900-present Course, and Literary Interpretation Course. Cross-listed SUST 2154. Not open to those with credit for GAH 2259. This survey of twentieth-century American environmental literature covers the fundamentals of reading poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, the criterion by which a text is included or excluded from the genre of “environmental literature,” and an introduction to ecocritical theory and criticism. The class explores how literature addresses environmental issues, especially the representation of nature and wilderness. This course may be offered in sections with a W2 designation. Faculty: K. Jacobson

Writing Course (W1). In this course, students will explore the origins and styles of spoken word poetry and slam poetry. This will be done with an analysis of the difference between poetry written for the page and poetry written for the mic; original individual poems will be composed and performed. Faculty: C. King

Writing course (W1). Applications/Approaches course. Through the production of scripts in the formats required for stage and film, students will explore the art and craft of writing for performance. Techniques for submission to festivals, juried competitions, and other performance opportunities will be examined. Faculty: STAFF

Prerequisite: LITT 2237 or Permission of Instructor. To obtain Permission of Instructor, writing sample is required. Writing course (W1). Applications/Approaches course. This is a writing course, focusing on speculative genre short stories (science fiction, fantasy, and horror). We will be discussing writing techniques effective for short story writing, along with basics of story structure, plotting, characterization, and creating believable worlds. All students will be expected to write several short stories during the semester, and peer critique will be a part of the course. Faculty: E. SEDIA

Previously titled: Interdisciplinary Humanities. International/Multicultural Course (I). Formerly titled Interdisciplinary Humanities. This course explores what it means to be a citizen of the United States through reading stories and watching movies that represent many cultures and tell stories of immigration and being a part of America. We learn about our common experiences while celebrating our diversity. Faculty: Staff

An introduction to the works and legacy of William Shakespeare, from his plays, historical backgrounds of the early modern theatre, to reception of his plays in modernity through literature, music, film, and popular culture from around the globe. Faculty: A. MIYASHIRO

Pre-1700 Course, Literary Interpretation Course and British Literature Course. This course is designed to familiarize students with the legends about and surrounding King Arthur and the Round Table fellowship. Through a series of readings, students will survey the development of the legends of Arthur from their beginnings in early medieval Europe to their modern adaptations in many cultures around the world. Faculty: A. MIYASHIRO

1700-1900 Course, Literary Interpretation Course. In this course, students will survey the history and theories of the novella genre. Employing a comparative approach, the course will analyze novellas by eminent European and American expatriate authors from the late 18th to the early 20th century. Faculty: M. HUSSONG

Prerequisite: One W1 course with a grade of C or better. Writing course (W1). Applications/Approaches course. This course will introduce students to the basics of creative writing, giving them a chance to practice a variety of skills and apply them to various poetry forms, the short story, creative non-fiction, drama and monologue. We will cover the basics of what makes good writing by using a number of exercises, assignments and readings. Faculty: N. LONG, C. ARRIEU-KING, E. DIGIORGIO, S. NOVIC

International/Multicult Course 1900-present Course and Literary Interpretation Course. This course explores major writers of contemporary world poetry beginning with European modernism and its contemporary movements. African, Asian, Russian, European poetry, and various poetry of the Americas will be studied. Faculty: C. ARRIEU-KING

Prerequisite: One W1 course with a grade of C or better. 1900-present Course. This course examines the historical and stylistic roots of contemporary American poetry in Modernism, Harlem Renaissance, British Romanticism and American Renaissance.. Students will then read, analyze, discuss and write about a vibrant range of contemporary American poetry in terms of its forms and its significance in literature, society, politics, history, etc. Faculty: C. ARRIEU-KING

1900-present Course, Literary Interpretation Course and American Literature Course. This course will explore a particular form of fiction: the novella. Is it a long short story or a short novel? Many of the greatest American authors have written novellas, and readings will include some of the “classic” American novellas including Daisy Miller, Ethan Frome, The Great Gatsby, and others. Faculty: Literature Faculty

Cross-listed LANG 2244. This course will examine the issues of culture, nationalism, and empire as they are expressed in novels from the Mediterranean region in the twentieth century and today. The people around the shores of the Mediterranean are connected by that sea, and ideas travel the same routes as commerce. The tension between cosmopolitanism and nationalism, between looking outward and looking inward, will be explored in novels from different countries and cultures. Some of the authors, involved are Nobel prize-winners Naguib Mahfouz, Orhan Pamuk, and Ivo Andric, as well as Nikos Kazantzakis and Amos Oz. All of the works read for class have been translated into English.

This course offers an introduction to writing “short short” stories (stories 1000-2000 words long) for students who are already accomplished in the basics of writing and wish to expand their style and form. The class will have short lectures and exercises on specific techniques and topics, discussions about published short shorts, and workshops.

A look at the development of 20th century avant-garde movements in arts and humanities from French symbolism to punk rock by examining the primary source documents and artworks that informed Greil Marcus’ landmark book in cultural studies Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20TH Century. Faculty: Staff

International/Multicultural Course (I). Formerly titled Introduction to Postcolonial Literature. 1900-Present Course, Ethnic/Postcolonial Literature Course. A study of global fiction, poetry, drama and autobiography in nation, and English. We will consider recurrent themes and issues such as identity, power, migration, race, gender, nation and representation. We will also examine the specific social, cultural and historical contexts from which these literature emerge.

1900-present Course, Literary Interpretation Course, Ethnic/Postcolonial Literature and British Literature Course. International/Multicultural –I Course. This class introduces students to works by Anglophone writers from around the world. We will read texts written by authors from the former British Empire, ranging from Africa, the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, India, Ireland and Australia, and compare connected works from within England. We will also compare the issues which these writers write about historically, and the similarity of their concerns and their conditions. Faculty: Literature Faculty

Humor—specifically satire—can change the world. Students will explore, examine, and analyze how satire challenges society and calls for change. Students will trace the history of and learn the tools of satire. Works will include Swift, Twain, Amy Schumer, Dave Chapelle, and Saturday Night Live.

International/Multicult Course This course surveys literatures of Southeast and East Asia, Polynesia, and the Asian diaspora in the South Pacific and the Americas. Writers from China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and the Philippines, as well as Hawai’i, New Zealand, and the US are considered in their cultural contexts. Faculty: A. Miyashiro

International/Multicultural Course (I). This course will survey pre-modern women writers from a global perspective. We will examine literatures written by women from Asia, Europe, and North Africa between the years of 500-1500, and will examine how women helped shape the various literary genres, such as novel, lyric poetry, and autobiography. Authors studied will include, but are not limited to, Murasaki Shikibu, Marie de France, Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Christine de Pizan, and Margery Kempe. Faculty: A. Miyashiro

International/Multicultural Course (I). This course examines a wide range of representations of cultural “others” in film, literature, scientific and legal writings, popular culture, and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the continuity of racialization throughout the centuries in a global context. Faculty: A.MIYASHIRO

Prerequisite: Not open to students with credit for LITT 3309. The two decades from 1917 to 1937 are traditionally identified as the period of artistic proliferation known as the Harlem Renaissance. A number of social factors, such as northward migration of southern blacks and Pan-African identification throughout the Diaspora, converged to help define this period. In an unprecedented proliferation of artistic works, Harlem's black literati celebrated, in their works, the cultural distinctions of their people. This surge of positive racial consciousness was buoyed on by the vociferous recognition of black literary artists by their white counterparts. Students in this course will read representative works of the Harlem Renaissance period, including, but not limited to the poetry of Langston Hughes, Helene Johnson, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay; the novels of Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston and Jean Toomer; and critical literary studies of the period by observers writing then and now. Faculty: Literature Faculty

Applications/Approaches course. This course presents an intensive review of modern English Grammar. The history and development of the English language is briefly introduced. Faculty: T. KINSELLA

This course explores LGBTQ+ narratives in contemporary American TV, film, literature, music, art and social media. Students will be introduced to LGBTQ+ terminology and queer theory as tools with which to critically examine LGBTQ+ representation and storylines in media, as well as the following themes: identity formation and coming out; intersectionality and marginalized populations in the LGBTQ+ community; legal issues and civil rights; and queer relationships, families, and community. Staff

Not open to students with credit for GEN 1043. Students are given the opportunity to learn how to design, implement, and evaluate different models of high-impact practices of community organizing. Successful participation and completion of this course prepares students to become active citizens by promoting civic engagement and social responsibility.

In this course, students will research and present on two specific topics related to calendars, names of the days, holidays, and other units of time. Such assignments will introduce them to research methods and scholarly inquiry. Weekly response statements and or quizzes will follow readings; there will be a written mid-term and final. Students will be responsible for not only the content of the readings and professor’s lectures, but on content provided by their peers. Faculty: N. Long

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. Pre-1700 Course and British Literature Course. Chaucer's early works, Troilus and Criseyde and The Canterbury Tales in their original middle English, considered as part of the continuum of medieval literature, philosophy, religion, and aesthetics. Chaucer's literary development and the nature of the major contribution to both contemporary and subsequent literature. Faculty: A. MIYASHIRO

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. 1900-present Course American Literature Course and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. This course will cover some of Faulkner's major "Yoknapatawpha" novels, including The Unvanquished, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, and the "Snopes Trilogy." Students are expected to have some familiarity with the novel as genre. Faculty: Literature Faculty

This course provides a snapshot of trends in experimental (not purely naturalistic) American theater for the past 50 years. Sam Shepherd, Richard Maxwell, Mac Wellman, Maria Irene Fornes, Robert Wilson, the Wooster Group, Butoh, "alienation" techniques, multimedia, Surrealism and indeterminacy are among the topics covered. Faculty: B. STEFANS

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. (Cross-listed ANTH 3122.) 1900-present Course, International/multicultural course (I). Africana Studies course, American Literature Course, US Ethnic/Postcolonial Course and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. This course will focus on the African American novel from the middle of the 20th century to the current period. Students will explore some culturally constructed themes such as the importance of communal connections, the destabilization of received notions of good and evil, beautiful and ugly. The examination of cultural images constructed out of vernacular traditions such as the blues motif and language performance stylistics, i.e., call and response and signification, will also enhance the students' understanding of the authors' intentions. In addition to the novels represented, students will read at least one collection of critical essays, which explore black aesthetic traditions, and the ways in which postmodern theoretical analyses have helped to articulate their direction. The assigned readings will likely include the following authors: Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Ntozake Shange, and Octavia Butler. Faculty: STAFF

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. Applications/Approaches course An intensive review of significant literary theories, concentrating especially on late twentieth-century approaches. Theories to be examined may include Marxist, Feminist, Structuralist, Deconstructionist, and New Historicism. Faculty: E. AUGUST, K. JACOBSON, A. HOLTON

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. 1900-present Course, American Literature Course. This course examines landscapes key to the understanding of American literature. We will map how literary place reflects and shapes individual and national identities. The course surveys various geographies in American literature, such as the city, the road, the wilderness and the home. The course may alternately focus on one or two particular regions of American identity to pursue a more intensive study of a specific narrative. Faculty: K. JACOBSON

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123 or Permission of Instructor. Not open to those with credit for AMST 5039. American Literature course. This course examines the American “environmental imagination” by investigating the relationships between gender, race, the environment, and literature. The course will introduce ecofeminism and Critical Race Theory as a critical lenses for understanding American environmentalism. Course readings will include literary texts (nonfiction, fiction, and/or poetry) as well as writing by ecofeminists and environmental humanities scholars.

Writing Course (W1). This course explores the history of spoken word poetry in America in the 20th and 21st centuries. Along with extensive readings of hi stories and viewing of spoken word performance, students will write collaboratively, workshop pieces and perform collectively. Both creative and critical writing will be assigned. Faculty: C. Arrieu-King

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123 or Permission of Instructor, Pre-1700 Course. (Cross-listed LANG 3201.) This is a course in which we will be reading and discussing ancient Greek Novels. These novels constitute an early form of fiction and despite the fact that they form the basis of much of modern (especially love) fiction (or Romance as is widely known) they are frequently neglected. The Greek novel is a product of the Hellenistic period (post 2nd century BC). One of its most important characteristics is the combination of love stories with adventure and wanderings usually in exotic lands. In this course we will examine Hellenistic novels, which are considered the core of the canon in this genre (Ethiopica by Heliodoros of Emesa, etc.). Faculty: K. PANAGAKOS

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123 with a grade of C or better. Pre-1700 Course and British Literature Course. Careful consideration of several of William Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The goal of this course includes competent understanding of Shakespeare's art including placement of that art within historical and current social and cultural contexts. Students will work to develop sophisticated reading skills, both aesthetic and analytical, and to enhance their writing skills. Faculty: T. KINSELLA, A. MIYASHIRO

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. 1900-Present Course. 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. How did the Holocaust influence Germans' and Austrians' perceptions of their history, their countries, their families, and themselves? In this course, we will examine literature by writers who opposed the Nazi regime and secondary texts that will help us understand the forces that lead to the rise of the regime, as well as those that eventually helped to shape a new, democratic beginning. We will see that collective and individual identities continue to shift with each new generation after the Holocaust. Through close readings and discussions, students will begin to understand that the historical experience of genocide continues to affect a nation's identity for generations. Faculty: M. HUSSONG

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. 1900-Present Course. American Literature Course, Ethnic/Postcolonial Course and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. This course will focus on Native North American Indian writings in English from the early 20th-century through the present. Some themes to be explored are connections between orality and literacy, Indian/white relations, the environment, spirituality. We will also consider how various writers respond to social and political concerns such as gender, race, poverty, and self-determination. Faculty: D. GUSSMAN

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. 1900-Present Course. American Literature Course, Ethnic/Postcolonial Course and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. This course will focus on Native North American Indian writings in English from the early 20th-century through the present. Some themes to be explored are connections between orality and literacy, Indian/white relations, the environment, spirituality. We will also consider how various writers respond to social and political concerns such as gender, race, poverty, and self-determination. Faculty: D. GUSSMAN

Prerequisite: LITT 3205. Pre-1700 Course and British Literature Course. This course will examine a select number of Shakespeare's plays in an intense and comprehensive way. We will review current scholarship, read background and source materials, and investigate the relationship of the selected plays to the whole canon. Faculty: A. MIYASHIRO, T. KINSELLA

Prerequisites: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. Readings and in-depth analysis of significant authors and ideas in literature and culture. Topic varies by instructor. May be repeated three times for credit when topics vary. This course may be offered in sections with a W2 designation. Faculty: STAFF

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 AND LITT 2123 with a grade of C or better. Formerly titled The British Romantics. 1700-1900 Course and British Literature Course. We will study Romantic literature in the context of the political and cultural struggles of its time, and we will consider its influence on succeeding generations of poets and novelists. Possible authors include Matthew Lewis, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. Faculty: E. August

Prerequisites: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123 or permission of instructor. British Literature Course. Gender/Sexuality Course. We will read novels by late-18th through late 20th century writers, paying particular attention to specific concerns shared and developed by the women selected. We will also examine the complex relationship women writers have with their male counterparts and consider whether or not women's fiction and/or poetry departs from or reflects the dominant culture of the periods under review. Faculty: STAFF

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. 1900-present Course. British Literature Course. This course will examine British drama from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on drama’s significance in British cultural history and identity. It will cover a range of dramatic genres and representative playwrights. It may include works by Gilbert and Sullivan, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard, Sarah Kane, and Jez Butterworth. Faculty: L. HONAKER

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. Pre-1700 Course and British Literature Course. A course covering English drama written after 1660, the restoration of the monarchy, and before 1737, the introduction of censorship through the Stage Licensing Act. Comedy and tragedy by authors including: Etherege, Wycherley, Dryden, Farquahar, Cibber and Fielding, among others. Faculty: T. KINSELLA

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. 1700-1900 Course and British Literature Course. An examination of the drama, poetry, and prose of the Restoration and 18th-century Britain. Authors range from Dryden to Wollstonecraft. Faculty: T. KINSELLA

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. 1900-present Course. International/Multicultural –I, Ethnic/Postcolonial Course, British Literature Course and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. This advanced course will be devoted to exploring the history of the Modernist movement through considering how Modernism was constructed through the involvement of European artists with faraway, “exotic” colonies. How did these influential works of art and literature draw their aesthetic value from their encounter with Empire? How did the “non-European” world then figure into Modernist texts and images-how can we see Africa, Asia and Latin America dramatized into a quintessentially “European” movement? Through studying Modernism as a moment of “cultural globalization”, this course will thus introduce students to connections between politics, aesthetics and empire. Faculty: Literature Faculty

An introduction to literature written by and about transgender people, this course focused on both historical and contemporary authors. Transgender incorporates identities including female-to-male, male-to-female, non-binary, agender, and gender queer. Trans literature has helped those who identify as trans to understand themselves, educated other about the lives of trans people, and created greater cultural acceptance. Faculty: N. Long

Prerequisite: Completion of one of the following courses: SOCY 1100, GAH/GSS 2358, GEN 2235, GSS 3618, GAH 3130 This course will feature an intersectional feminist critique to discover and analyze the various narratives, tropes, cultural values and ethical decisions associated with the “Sport Film” (Hollywood) and “Documentary Film” genres. These dissected will include nationalism, masculinity, socio-economic factors, power dynamics, race gender, deviance and many more. Faculty: Staff

This course explores through reading, discussion, and critical writing, international contemporary poetry. Translation theory and practices will also be examined as part of the coursework.

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123 with minimum grades of C. In this course, we’ll look at some of the foundational poets of American poetry: Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Robert Frost. Along the way we will explore ideas of what American Literature is, think about our canon, and read and critically write about living American poets who find their literary roots in these predecessors. Faculty: C. King

Prerequisite: LITT 2114. LITT 2123. 1900-present Course. American Literature Course and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. This course examines American theatre history as a significant part of American cultural history and considers the ways in which theatre has contributed to the construction of an American identity. Representative dramatists from the 19th and 20th centuries and a range of dramatic styles will be covered, with emphasis on modern drama. Emphasis will be given to significant themes, dramatic styles, and reflections on American life and values of individual playwrights. Faculty: D. GUSSMAN

Prerequisite: LITT 2114. LITT 2123. 1900-present Course. American Literature Course and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. In this course we will read and discuss a book or collection of poetry from living poets as a means of familiarizing ourselves with some diverse voices in Contemporary American poetry. These voices will include those of Native American, African American, Gay and Lesbian, and Asian American writers. Poets will likely include Yusef Kommunyakaa, Carl Phillips, Marilyn Hacker, Joel Brouwer and Mary Oliver. In addition, each student will present an additional collection during the semester. Faculty: C. ARRIEU-KING

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. Pre-1700 Course and British Literature Course. Not open to students with credit for GAH 2374. An upper-level introduction to early Irish Literature in translation. Students will read selections of stories from the Mythological, Ulster and Fenian cycles. Historical and cultural contexts will help the class to engage and understand Ireland’s early literature, one of the most important repositories of medieval European literature. Faculty: T. KINSELLA

This course examines the occulted portions of the present-hackers, conspiracies, fetishists, right-wing extremist, etc.- in art, media, & memes. We’ll scan Twitter & Reddit, explore some truly strange thought-experiments & political debates & hopefully find a way to make sense of our dystopian present. Staff

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. Pre-1700 Course and British Literature Course. This course examines the development of the medieval romance, from its origins in historical narratives to their flourishing in the late twelfth and thirteenth century, and the movement of romance genres into the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and other Middle English authors. We will emphasize the processes of reading and literary circulation at the time, considering the works in their manuscript contexts and in relation to oral transmission and performance. All literary works read in modern English translation. Faculty: A. MIYASHIRO

International/Multicult Course Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. Pre-1700 Course or Ethnic/Postcolonial Course. This course examines wider medieval European literatures from the Mediterranean and continental Europe, covering the period from the late Roman Empire to the 14th century. All literary works will be read in translation, with an emphasis on literary transmission, and historical contexts. Texts and authors may include Augustine, Boethius, Dante Alighieri, Chrétien de Troyes, Juan de Ruiz, Gottfried von Strassburg, Guillaume de Lorris/Jean de Meun, and Icelandic sagas. Faculty: A. MIYASHIRO

Prerequisite: LITT 1100 or LITT 2114, LITT 2123, and LITT 2237 with a minimum grade of C or Permission of Instructor. Writing course (W1). In this course students will focus on the theories, technique, and craft behind poetry, fiction, and other literary genres. Students are asked to write creative work that responds to the theoretical texts, to workshop their work, and to apply the language introduced in the course to critiques of other student work.

Prerequisite: LITT 2114, LITT 2237, and LITT 2123 or Permission of Instructor. Writing course (W1). This course, geared toward the advanced writer, treats language as information that needs to be consciously formed into creative expression. Exercises range from traditional forms such as the sestina and villanelle to modern concerns such as constraint-based writing, metafiction, visual poetics, collage, and chance-based procedures. Faculty: C. ARRIEU-KING, N. LONG

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. Writing Course (W1). American Literature Course. In this course, students will learn about traditional and experimental forms in poetry in American 20th- and 21st- century poetry, including several key texts that serve as classics and/or that subverted the norms of their day. FACULTY: C. ARRIEU-KING

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. Applications/Approaches Course. Where does the English language come from? How did it arrive in its present form, globally and locally? This course studies the formation of the English language from its Indo-Germanic roots in early medieval Europe to the standardization practices in the early modern period, and will conclude with studies on global variations (creoles, pidgins, and dialects). Faculty: A. MIYASHIRO

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123, or Permission of Instructor. 1900-present Course, Ethnic/Postcolonial Course, American Literature Course, International/Multicultural -I, Africana Studies, and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. The two decades from 1917 to 1937 are traditionally identified as the period of artistic proliferation known as the Harlem Renaissance. A number of social factors, such as northward migration of southern blacks and Pan-African identification throughout the Diaspora, converged to help define this period. In an unprecedented proliferation of artistic works, Harlem's black literati celebrated, in their works, the cultural distinctions of their people. This surge of positive racial consciousness was buoyed on by the vociferous recognition of black literary artists by their white counterparts. Students in this course will read representative works of the Harlem Renaissance period, including, but not limited to the poetry of Langston Hughes, Helene Johnson, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay; the novels of Jessie Fauset, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston and Jean Toomer; and critical literary studies of the period by observers writing then and now. Faculty: STAFF

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. Writing course (W1). 1900-present Course, American Literature Course. This course will explore the literary movement of Naturalism, as practiced by American writers of fiction. Authors such as Crane, Dreiser, Norris, London and others will be studied in the context of Naturalism. Faculty: Literature Faculty

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123, or Permission of Instructor. 1700-1900 Course, American Literature Course, and Gender/Sexuality Course. In 19th-century America, most fiction was written by and for women. We will trace the development of "women's fiction" through genres including the seduction novel, conversion narrative, domestic novel and realism, and examine the complex relationship of this literature to the dominant culture of the period. Faculty: Literature Faculty

Prerequisite: LITT 2114. LITT 2123 or Permission of Instructor. 1900-present Course. American Literature Course and 20th-Century Contemporary Literature Course. Women's, Gender/Sexuality course. WGSS elective course. This course surveys twentieth- and twenty-first-century American women writers. Focusing primarily on fiction, we will trace the development and map the range of women's writing in this period. The course will particularly examine the gendered nature of writing, the ways gender inflects the reception of women's writing, and the roles gender plays in contemporary American culture. Faculty: K. JACOBSON

Prerequisite: LITT 2114. LITT 2123.1700-1900 Course. American Literature Course and Ethnic/Postcolonial Course. This course examines the centrality of the category of “race” to the themes, publication, and reception of literature in the United States from the nineteenth century to the present. Faculty: A. HOLTON

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123. 1900-Present Course, Ethnic/Postcolonial Course. This course will study the theory of genocide and examine if and how works of literature reflect and represent the discourse. This is an interdisciplinary comparative literature course. Faculty: M. Hussong

Prerequisite: LITT 2114 and LITT 2123 with minimum grades of C. This course examines representations of slavery in twentieth- and twenty-first century North American literature and culture, asking how each work depicts the history and legacy of slavery and how it engages broader questions about racial justice and historical memory.

Open to juniors and seniors only. Values/Ethics course. This course will focus on the rhetorical, social, medical, industrial, historical, biological and environmental impact of farming and food industry today through rigorous reading and writing. Students will do service-learning work in collaborative teams with local food banks, community kitchens, community supported agriculture networks, etc. and integrate the national and global information they will have read with their own food and service experiences in the local area. Faculty: C. KING