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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 104, ENGL 204H; Minimum grade C- Students develop skills in analyzing fiction, poetry, and drama. Note: This course may count toward the writing minor. Cross-listed: See ENGL 305
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 104 or ENGL 204H A course to develop skills in creative writing, particularly in writing fiction and poetry. Strategies of style, techniques of narrative writing, and forms of poetry are examined. Cross-listed: See ENGL 307
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program Students will examine and respond to literature from various cultural perspectives in order to understand and appreciate the role of religious issues in that literature, particularly the relationship between religion and cultural identity, cultural conflict, tradition, and questions about faith. Cross-listed: See REL 209H
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- Students read novels and short stories that focus on the passages from youth to adulthood and from innocence to experience. Cross-listed: See ENGL 311
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program This course will look at influential modern works such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, recent revisionism by writers such as Anne Rice and Octavia Butler, and a few of the many monster movies. Students will consider the language, structure, origins, contexts, and implications of the stories. Cross-listed: See HUM 212H
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- Each course focuses upon a major theme in American literature; for example, American Identity. Cross-listed: See ENGL 313
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program In this course students will study poetry, drama, fiction, art, and film from throughout the world which address many aspects of war and its repercussions and effects on the family, culture and the larger civilization. Cross-listed: See HUM 213H
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program This class will closely examine recent (1968-present) American novels and films in order to understand the conventions and contemporary appeal of the conspiracy narrative. The class will take an interdisciplinary approach: novels may include Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49, Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo, Margaret Atwood’s Bodily Harm, Don DeLillo’s Libra, Chang-Rae Lee’s Native Speaker, and Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club. In addition, films may include The Parallax View, The Manchurian Candidate, The Matrix, The Truman Show, and The Stepford Wives. Cross-listed: See HUM 214H
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C- This course analyzes and appreciates selected works of contemporary American fiction and non-fiction. Cross-listed: See ENGL 315
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program In this course students will explore Tolkien as a medievalist and a modern writer. They will study and discuss The Lord of the Rings, Silmarillion, Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Leaf by Niggle, and On Fairy Stories, as well as the medieval texts Beowulf, the Elder Edda, and the Saga of the Volsungs. Cross-listed: See HUM 215H
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