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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits The focus is high Modernist prose fiction-Joyce, Proust, Stein,Woolf, Beckett, and others-with a glance at the predecessors-Balzac and Flaubert-and at the post-Modernfollowers.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course is a close reading of poets in the Englishspeaking world from about 1890 to 1940.Yeats, Eliot, Frost, Pound, H.D., Stevens, and Moore are among the authors included.Topics pursued are the reactions of Modernists to 19th century style and subject, the underlying trends of dislocation and pessimism, and the search for new values and expressions.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course surveys American drama from O'Neill to the present. Dramatists include O'Neill, Miller,Williams, Albee, Hellman,Wilder, and others.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Explores great works of fiction, poetry, and drama by women. Critical analysis of literature considers differing forms of literary criticism, including psychoanalytical theory, feminist theory, Marxist criticism, and historicism. Emphasis on the analytical categories of gender, class, race, ethnicity, age, physical condition of writers, and the societies they depict.Victorian to Contemporary writers. Same asWMS 369.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits A reading-intensive introduction to postcolonial literature and theory. Focus on late 20th-century voices of the decolonized addressing the effects of the colonial past and decolonization on their national, cultural, and individual identities.The literary texts we study come from the English- speaking world, particularly the Anglophone Caribbean, Anglophone Africa, and India.The theoretical readings include texts by Frantz Fanon and Edward Said.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course is a study of poets in the English-speaking world from about 1940 to present. Auden,Thomas, Lowell, Plath, Bly, Levertov, Heaney, Kinnell, Brooks, Olson, Creeley, andWalcott are representative of the new post-Modernism, a definition of which is still evolving.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course is a survey of drama from 1960 to the present. Authors include Beckett, Pinter, Fugard, Stoppard, Shepard, Mamet, Shaffer, and Ionesco.Topics for discussion include social and political impact as well as dramatic artistry.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits The focus is prominent writing done or recognized in this period with attention to the infection of nonfiction with fictional techniques and the "democratization" of theterm literature to include sci-fi,mystery, reportorial writing, and the wide range of ethnic and gender concerns.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) This course helps students learn to write short stories. Exercises are designed to strengthen students' skill in rendering the elements of fiction. All work is discussed in a workshop situation. An anthology of short stories is read along with students' work. A folio of exercises, short stories, and revisions provides the basis for the course grade.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) This course helps students learn to write poetry. Exercises are designed to sharpen students' skill in rendering the elements of poetry. All work is discussed in a workshop situation. An anthology of poetry is read along with student work. A folio of exercises, poems, and revisions provides the basis for the course grade.
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