|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
Course deals with some of the following questions: What is gay and lesbian culture How is it unique What kinds of literary images suggest uniqueness Course focuses on contemporary texts that may include those of Judy Grahn, Paul Monette, Audre Lorde, Rita Mae Brown, and John Rechy. Instruction includes examination of earlier works such as Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and Cather's My Antonia tdiscover gay and lesbian themes often ignored or concealed in more traditional textual analyses. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
-
3.00 Credits
Course introduces Shakespeare's work to students with little previous exposure. Course requires reading of selected major plays. Students learn about Shakespeare's theater and become familiar with many ideas of the English Renaissance. Readings may include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and The Tempest. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
-
3.00 Credits
Series of courses focuses on figures, periods, or movements in dramatic literature. Content includes modern American drama, which surveys twentieth-century American playwrights such as O'Neill, Odets, Heilman, Williams, Miller, Inge, and Hansberry, and experimental drama, which explores the development of experimental theater through figures such as Jarry, Beckett, Stein, Ionesco, Shepard, and Shange. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
-
3.00 Credits
Course surveys myths and epics produced by ancient cultures such as the Sumarians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, and Hebrews. The focus is on the stories, mythic structures, and literary and poetic forms of the myths as they symbolically express deep cultural values. Works studied may include the Sumarian Hymn to Inanna, The Egyptian Mysteries, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Kaballah. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
-
3.00 Credits
Course studies literary qualities of the Bible with attention to its poetic and narrative modes. Instruction examines ways in which Biblical literary forms, themes, and images influence American and European literature. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
-
3.00 Credits
The courses in this series take a literary approach to the study of enduring mythological archetypes as they appear in literature and film. Rotating course topics include The Goddess, The Lover, The Magician, and The Warrior. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
-
3.00 Credits
In this class, students will explore prison culture in America by examining the history and philosophy of prisons, and the way prisons are portrayed in literature, film, and television, including popular shows such as Prison Break and OZ. Given America's fascination with crime and the swelling number of incarcerated individuals (over two million in America), the class raises important questions and issues about poverty and privilege, punishment and redemption. Students will discuss the similarities between prisons and various dissimilar institutions (such as colleges) that also have their own language, rituals, and hierarchy. In addition to readings, screenings, and discussions, the class will host guest speakers (such as a prison guard, a former inmate, a public defender, and a prison minister) who work closely with prison populations. Students will read one novel about crime and punishment in America, as well as articles, essays, stories, poems, prison narratives, song lyrics, and excerpts from longer works of both fiction and nonfiction about prisoners and life behind bars, as well as about the culture that surrounds those incarcerated. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
-
3.00 Credits
Class concerns the relationship between written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. Course explores how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. Instructors may focus on a particular theme, such as the love story, fantasy, or mythology. Works studied have been as diverse as The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II
-
3.00 Credits
This class will explore nonfiction films in their relationship to nonfiction literature. What does it mean to speak of films as essays or memoirs or autobiographies What is the relationship between text and image, fact, truth, and composition in films presenting themselves as nonfictional We will also consider some nonfiction literature that invokes and plays off film. Filmmakers such as Ross McElwee, Spike Lee, Erroll Morris, Chris Marker, Barbara Hammer, Su Friedrich, Jonathan Caouette, and Spalding Gray will be considered. 3 CRE DITS
-
3.00 Credits
Course features rotating topics that explore a particular theme, region, or interdisciplinary approach to literature. Specific topics included in this course are: Journalists as Authors, Literature of Place, Family in Literature, Twentieth- Century Literature of the Environment, Literature of the Vietnam War, and Chicago in Literature. Course is repeatable as topic changes. 3 CRE DITS PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 WRITING AND RHETORIC II OR PLACEMENT
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|