Fall 2018
Tales of love, lust, jealousy, and betrayal; mirth and mischief; greed and murder; revenge, mercy, and redemption: welcome to the world of Shakespeare!
Masterpieces of American Literature enhances students' understanding of the American literary and artistic heritage through an intensive study of a few centrally significant texts, emphasizing works written before the 20th century.
This course introduces students to reading poetry by examining the great variety of poems written and composed in English from the very beginning of the English language until recently.
This course introduces students to a range of major works of British literature, including at least one play by Shakespeare, a pre-20th century English novel, and works by Chaucer and/or Milton.
This course introduces students to reading poetry by examining the great variety of poems written and composed in English from the very beginning of the English language until recently.
In this class about Jewish mysticism and the Jewish-American literary tradition, you will enter a world filled with dybbuks and golems, with stories about Ezekiel’s Chariot and the Shekhinah or the female divinity. You will read stories about the creation of the universe about absence, nothingness, and divine constriction that are rarely read in university classrooms.
This course introduces literature by women in England and America. We cover both poetry and fiction and varying historical periods while acquainting students with the contribution of women writers to the English literary tradition and investigates the nature of this contribution.
This course introduces students to the tradition of American environmental literature dating from Transcendentalism through realist and experimental contemporary literary texts.
Ghosts and monsters fill the pages of popular books and appear on our TV and movie screens. This course surveys the literary history of such creations and asks what we can learn from them. We will begin by exploring the origins of the Gothic genre.
This course offers students an opportunity to practice composition skills in order to write literate, forceful and persuasive essays. Participants will work to develop a clean, efficient writing style.