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Course Criteria
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8.40 Credits
Selected works in poetry and prose considered in chronological order and historical context. Attention to the works and to the ideas and tastes of their periods. 1800 to the present. Writing intensive. Group 8. 4 cr.
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4.40 Credits
From the beginning of American literature to the Civil War. Writing intensive. Group 4. 4 cr.
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8.40 Credits
From the Civil War to the present. Writing intensive. Group 8. 4 cr.
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8.40 Credits
An introduction to African American literature in the context of a variety of cultural perspectives. Course topics may include major writers, literary genres, historical periods, Harlem Renaissance, Black Arts Movement, fi ne and folk arts, religion, music and fi lm. (Also off ered as AMST 502.) Writing intensive. Group 8. 4 cr.
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8.40 Credits
Literature of the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha, primarily in the King James version. Writing intensive. Group 8. 4 cr.
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8.40 Credits
Fiction, poetry and nonfi ction books on the natural environment. Such books as Th oreau’s Walden or Maine Woods, Leopold’s Sand County Almanac, Boston’sOutermost House, Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek- -books by naturalists who observe nature vividly and knowingly and who write out of their concern for the environment. Writing intensive. Group 8. 4 cr.
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8.40 Credits
Folktales, songs, proverbs, beliefs, superstitions and their use by such American authors as Irving, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Melville, Th oreau, Twain, Frost and Faulkner; some emphasis on oral folk culture of New Hampshire. Writing intensive. Group 8. 4 cr.
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8.40 Credits
How various writers depict insanity and how they approach the problem of determining what attitudes and what behaviors are truly insane. Emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century works, but works from earlier periods also considered. Euripides’ Th e Bacchae, Shakespeare’s KingLear, Cervantes’s Don Quixote, Hoff man’s Th e GoldenPot, Dostoevsky’s Note from the Underground, Robbe- Grillet’s Th e Voyeur, Nabokov’s Pale Fire and other texts.Writing intensive. Group 8. 4 cr.
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5.40 Credits
Survey of contemporary Asian, African and Caribbean fi ction, drama, travelogues, essays and poetry from the 1950s to the present. Introduces political, historical and cultural contexts within which these forms are produced. Writing intensive. Group 5. 4 cr.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Various faculty members investigate topics of special interest at a level appropriate for non-majors. Past topics have included Irish literature, animals in literature and literature of the Vietnam War. See department for details of current off erings. May be repeated for credit, barring duplication of topic. Writing intensive. 1-4 cr.
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