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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course foregrounds social, political, and cultural discussions about human rights as it examines the importance of human rights for the humanities, specifically analyzing the intersections of literature and film in representing rights and rights violations within 20th-21st century contexts.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the scholarship of jokes and other forms of comic folklore, such as the folksong and the anecdote. This course surveys theories of humor and the methods that folklorists employ in studying the comic. Students will write a term paper and be tested on their knowledge of the theory and methodology of folk humor.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of epic, lyric, and dramatic works from the Continent and Britain during the Medieval period.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines especially significant works during the earlier periods of Western literature. Students will sample various well-known texts from the Ancient to the Modern period. In order to help the students orient themselves within these vast fields, the course focuses on texts that highlight how the conceptions of the afterlife have evolved and developed in the Western Tradition and how the problem of good and evil has been posed. Students read selections from such works as Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Milton's Paradise Lost as well as the Book of Job, Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Goethe's Faust.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines especially significant works during the modern and contemporary periods of Western literature with a particular focus on how three major European thinkers, Darwin, Marx and Freud, have influenced American Literature of the 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the journey narrative in literature by writers of African descent with emphasis on critical and comparative approaches.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers literature written by women of African descent in the Americas and elsewhere and is intended to provide students with an overview of the major concerns, themes, and aesthetic developments of Black women writers cross-culturally and internationally. Sections may focus on women writers from a particular region (ex. Africa, The Caribbean, African American Lit.) or writing in a particular genre.
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3.00 Credits
Performance has become a - if not the - means with which theories about race and representation have "played" out. This course will bring the theoretical debate back into the theatre, using plays as entry points into larger critical thinking about performance, difference, identity, authenticity and embodiment. The course will combine theatre studies and performance studies methodology in order to look at plays, photography, film, and popular culture within a broader conversation about race and theatricality. We will look at how race is constructed or deconstructed, maintained or dismantled onstage, in the wings, and in the streets.
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3.00 Credits
This course consists of a study of topics, genres, or regions in contemporary African literature reflecting both traditional and post-colonial subjects and form.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed as an intermediate survey of Caribbean literature across a variety of cultural formations and linguistic traditions. It is organized by genres (such as slave narratives, fiction, memoir, or poetry), linguistic traditions, historical periods, or central themes (such as colonialism/post-colonialism, gender, or the environment). Though course themes will vary by instructors, the course may include documentaries, films, and critical readings in theory to supplement literary readings and to provide students with a comprehensive overview of the field.
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