|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
4.00 Credits
Theater Students explore all of Shakespeare's important tragedies-together with readings from theatrical history and criticism-and watch films, or work (as performers) with a play. The reading list includes Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus.
-
4.00 Credits
See Literature 2503 for a full course description.
-
4.00 Credits
This course starts with readings of A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Much Ado About Nothing, the four essential, normative, Shakespearean comedies. Students then examine the sometimes disturbing dramas ( The Merchant of Venice; Measure for Measure; The Winter's Tale; The Tempest; Henry IV, Part I ) in order to consider the meanings and values of comedy and the comic in Shakespeare's work.
-
4.00 Credits
American Studies, Victorian Studies This regularly repeating sequence of four independent but related units explores major authors and issues in American literature, from its Puritan origins to the 21st century. Literature 257 examines writings from the first three generations of Puritan settlement in 17th-century Massachusetts, in relation to one another and also to later American texts bearing traces of Puritan concerns.Authors include notable Puritan divines, poets, historians and citizens, and later writers such as Jonathan Edwards, Irving, Emerson, Dickinson, Twain, and Robert Lowell. Literature 258 includes Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, and other writers of the American Renaissance. Literature 259 studies works written from the post-Civil War period to the start of the Depression, emphasizing the new and evolving spirit of realism, naturalism, and emergent modernism. Authors include Henry James, Twain, Dreiser, Wharton, Frost, Louise Bogan, Dawn Powell, and Fitzgerald. Emerson began his essay "Experience" by asking: "Where do we finourselves?" Literature 260 asks this question of American literature in the wake of World War II and September 11. Authors include Mailer, Baldwin, TennesseeWilliams, Ginsberg, Updike, Roth, Carver, and Cisneros, among others.
-
4.00 Credits
Victorian Studies Children in Victorian literature come in a variety of forms: urchins, prigs, bullies, and grinds. They are demonstration models in numerous educational and social projects intended to create a braver future. Readings include nursery rhymes, fairy and folk tales, didactic stories, autobiography, and at least two novels: Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays and Meredith' s TheOrdeal of Richard Feverel.
-
4.00 Credits
ICS Irish stories, novels, and plays of the past 300 years have been divided between two traditions: the Anglo-Irish tradition of writers who were English by descent and the Catholic tradition of modern Ireland. Readings include Swift's Gulliver'sTravels, Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent ,Wilde' s ThePicture of Dorian Gray, Joyce's Dubliners, O'Brien' At Swim-Two-Birds, plays by Synge and Yeats, and fiction by Bowen, Trevor, O'Connor, O'Flaherty,and Doyle. Students also read a brief history of Ireland.
-
4.00 Credits
This course focuses on 20th-century fiction and plays. Liam O'Flaherty, Lennox Robinson, Molly Keane, Brendan Behan, and other English and Irish writers have exploited the ironic situation of the Anglo-Irish gentry living in prestigious manors on large estates and wielding social power amid a majority population with alien codes and beliefs. By concentrating on the symbol of the Big House, the class comes to some understanding of the contrasting ceremonies of life inside and outside the manor. Autobiographical and historical selections document the problems-decadence, alienation, violence-ofthe Big House under siege.
-
4.00 Credits
Africana Studies, GSS, SRE The "creolized" culture of the Caribbean hasbeen a hotbed of women's writing from the 19th to the 21st century. Claudia Mitchell-Kernan describes creolization as "nowhere purely African, but . . . a mosaic of African, European, and indigenous responses to a truly novel reality." This course is concerned with how women, through fiction, interpreted that reality. While confronting the often explosive politics of postcolonial island life and navigating the presence of French, English, and African influence, women saw their role as deeply conflicted. Students begin by reading The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself ( 1831) and Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands ( 1857). Other writers studied include Martha Gellhorn, Jean Rhys, Phyllis Shand Allfrey, Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, and Edwidge Danticat.
-
4.00 Credits
Students in this course survey representative works of German literature from the 18th century to the present. Readings include Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther ( 1774); Mother Tongue ( 1990), a collection of stories by Emine Sevgi ?zdamar, a Turkish-German woman writer; and works by Schiller, Eichendorff, Heine, Hauptmann, Wedekind, Rilke, Kafka, Mann, Brecht, Dürrenmatt, and Jelinek. The course is conducted in English. Students with an advanced proficiency in German are expected to read the works in the original.
-
4.00 Credits
See Literature 2701 for a full course description.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|