General Literature and Language
This seminar is designed to help you write an honors thesis that is well researched, historically and culturally grounded, and responsive to critical trends that have informed your particular topic. It will focus on sharpening the skills needed to
Close study of significant 20th-century poetry, drama, and prose works. Readings range from 1920s to the present. Requisites: Restricted to students with 27-180 credits (Sophomores, Juniors or Seniors) only. Additional Information:Arts Sci Core
Introduction to Shakespeare. Introduces students to 6-10 of Shakespeare's major plays. Comedies, histories, and tragedies will be studied. Some non-dramatic poetry may be included. Viewing of Shakespeare in performance is often required. Requisites
Introduces significant fiction by ethnic Americans. Explores both the literary and the cultural elements that distinguish work by these writers. Emphasizes materials from Native American, African American, and Chicano traditions. Additional
Introduces students to the American literary tradition through intensive study of centrally significant texts and genres. Additional Information:Arts Sci Core Curr: Literature and the Arts Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities Departmental
Introduces students to the British literary tradition through intensive study of centrally significant texts and genres. Additional Information:Arts Sci Core Curr: Literature and the Arts Arts Sci Gen Ed: Distribution-Arts Humanities Departmental
Introduces students to how to read a poem by examining the great variety of poems written and composed in English from the very beginning of the English language until recently. Additional Information:Arts Sci Core Curr: Literature and the Arts
Introduces literature by women in America. Covers both poetry and fiction and varying historical periods. Acquaints students with the contribution of women writers to the literary tradition and investigates the nature of this contribution.
Introduces global literature by women. Covers both poetry and fiction and varying historical periods. Acquaints students with the contribution of women writers to the literary tradition and investigates the nature of this contribution. Equivalent -
An introduction to the U.S. environmental imagination from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854) through Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) up to Warner Brothers’ film Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). This course focuses on American representations of