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Course Criteria
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Readings in a period, genre or theme to be selected by the instructor with attention to the needs of students who are interested in literary topics not covered in regular offerings. Proposals for a course in such readings require the approval of the department. 1-3 hrs
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4.00 Credits
In this course the student will explore the short story as a literary genre. Stories will range from the early masters such as Chekov, Kafka, and Hawthorne through contemporary offerings from Lessing, Mishima, and Achebe. Several critical approaches will be presented including formalism, New Historicism, and race/class/gender criticism. Students will keep a reading journal covering all material read for the course, and will be assessed on the basis of this journal, a mid-term and a final examination. Prerequisites: None. P 4 hrs
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4.00 Credits
The weekend component of this block meets one weekend per month for a total of 70 contact hours. The goal of the course is to improve students' writing skills along with their ability to read and analyze texts, both literary and cinematic. During the course students will read four novels and a set of critical essays, one for each weekend, which will be followed by viewing and discussing a film adaptation of the novel in class. Various critical approaches will be included in the reading and will be discussed in class in an effort to enable students to apply these critical principles in their own critical essays. Because the class meets only one weekend per month and a process approach to writing is utilized, students will be encouraged to use the facilities of the internet to share drafts of their essays with their peer revision group members and with the instructors during the weeks between class meetings. Students will bring revised drafts of their work to the weekend meeting where a significant amount of class time will be spent in writing workshops. Students will be assessed on the basis of their portfolios of critical writing consisting of four major essays and an extensive cover letter, their reading/viewing journals, and their participation, both in class and in peer response groups. Prerequisites: WEPT. Offered: I weekend/month for 4 months. P 4 hrs
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4.00 Credits
The goal of this independent study is to provide the student with time and space to read and respond to 7-9 critically acclaimed and classic novels. Students will be allowed to choose the novels they wish to read from a list of 50 that will be provided by the instructors. This course must be taken in conjunction with at least one of the other two courses in this block in order to ensure that the student has exposure to literary theory. Students will be assessed on the basis of their response journal, casual oral examination, and a critical essay. Prerequisites: None. P 4 hrs
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3.00 Credits
Intensive attention to novels in English written before 1900, which may include comparative or analytical studies of genre; critical reception of novels; serialization, gender issues; authors and editors; and valuation. Offered: On demand. 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
Studies in Poetry: An intensive study of poetry through the examination of a specific topic or the works of particular poets, for instance: Love, Seduction, and Betrayal; Form and Change; Death, Grief, and Consolation; Whitman, Dickinson, and the Soul; Sacred Poetry; Poetry and Metaphysics; The Long Poem; The Comic Poem; Sonnet, Sonnet Sequence and the Lyric; The Voyage; Nature, Self, and the Romantic Poet. 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
A study of the 20th-century novel, American, British and Continental, with attention to the development of fiction during this century. This course deals with novelists principally active before 1930, such as Conrad, James Joyce, Kafka, Hemingway, Lawrence, Woolf, Mann, Fitzgerald, and others. Offered: Fall. 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
This course deals with novelists principally active since 1930 such as Faulkner, Camus, Cary, Dos Passos, West, Heller, Barth, Greene, Lessing, Solzhenitsyn and other post-World War II writers. 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of colonialism through the study of a variety of texts, which may include literary, historical, and theoretical texts. These texts should represent the formation and elaboration of discourses surrounding colonialism. Texts will be drawn from more than one genre and from the metropole as well as multiple colonial contexts. The course will consider several definitions of colonialism and related terms such as empire, imperialism, and nationalism. Prerequisite: None 3 hrs
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the ancient concept of the hero by reading selected ancient works by authors such as Homer,Thucycides, Livy,Plutarch,Caesar,Tacitus,and Sallust. Students will also examine the impact of the ancient concept of the hero on modern literature and art. Also listed as ENGLISH 376 3 hrs
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