|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
2.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to questions of how gender, as it intersects with race, class, and sexuality, shapes literary texts, authorship, readership, and representation. Most often organized thematically, the course may focus on such issues as creativity, subjectivity, politics, work, sexuality, masculinity, or community in works chosen from a variety of periods, genres, and areas. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors, Women's Studies majors and minors. Offered fall semester.
-
2.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines how sexuality is articulated and mediated through literature and such modes of cultural production as film and two-dimensional art. Attention will be paid to specific iterations of sexuality and the labels that attend them (e.g., gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual). We will address theories of sexuality and study such authors as Jeanette Winterson, Mark Doty, Edmund White, Hart Crane, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and Michael Cunningham. The course may additionally encompass how sexuality intersects with ethnicity, science and politics. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
-
4.00 Credits
An exploration of literature of the American ethnic, immigrant, or regional experience. The course may focus on one ethnicity, such as Jewish American or Arab American; explore the immigrant experience as it is articulated in works from several ethnicities including Italian American, Irish American, Eastern European, Asian American, South Asian American, or Latino/a; or it may focus on literature produced within specific geographical regions, regional schools, or regional traditions of the United States, including Southern literature, literature of the Great Plains, the Northwest, the Southwest, California, New York City, or New Jersey. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate fall semesters..
-
4.00 Credits
A study of the writers in the African American literary tradition from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Through a variety of genres, we will examine the work of selected writers in light of their historical time and place, major themes, conclusions about the nature of black experience in the United States and their contributions to this literary tradition and to the American literary canon. We will pay close attention to particular movements in this tradition, such as the Harlem Renaissance, protest literature, the Black Arts movement, and contemporary directions in the literature since 1970. Writers may include: Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Lorraine Hansberry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, Paule Marshall, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Sonia Sanchez, and Alice Walker. May be repeated for credit as topic changes. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters..
-
2.00 - 4.00 Credits
Examines works by women writers in the Anglo-American and Anglophone tradition through the historical and theoretical approaches that have emerged from recent feminist criticism and theory. May focus on a particular genre, period, author or authors, the literature of a particular region, or on literature in particular social or cultural contexts. Such topics as: Women Writers and World War I; Female Bildungsroman; African American Women Writers; Victorian Women Poets. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
-
2.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will reconsider such issues as critical race theory and identity construction, gender and sexuality, hybridity, American canon formation, and nation-building in light of the contemporary Latino Boom (in music, film, art, television, and literature). The course considers thematic and figurative background to the literature such as la Malinche, Aztlan, Quetzalcoatl, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, la Llorona, la Virgen de Guadalupe, Nepantla, and Braceros. Authors studied may include Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, Rudolfo Anaya, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Valdez, Cristina Garcia, Junot Diaz, and Julia Alvarez. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate fall semesters.
-
4.00 Credits
A study of the development of English from Anglo-Saxon to its present status as a "global" language. The development of English is placed within the framing social, political and economic contexts of its speakers. May also examine the historical development of theories attempting to explain English, its styles, dialects, and literatures. Same as: LING 105. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
-
4.00 Credits
Rhetoric, most typically defined as "the art of persuasion," has had a variety of descriptions based on the describer and his or her historical context. This class will study the changing definitions of rhetoric from 5th-century B.C. Greece to contemporary American culture and why those changes took place. Students will also be asked to analyze rhetoric's relation to politics, religion, law and cultural identity from antiquity to the present day. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors. Offered in alternate spring semesters.
-
2.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will focus on selected topics such as gothic literature, Anglophone literature, Bible as literature, postcolonial literature, writers writing on visual art, humor in literature, the literature of the Holocaust, or other topics. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors.
-
2.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course will focus on selected topics such as film and film adaptations of literature, non-fiction prose, graphic novels, myth, modern constructions of older/ancient texts, or other topics. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Enrollment priority: given to English majors and minors.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|