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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Presenting the literature written prior to 1865 in the United States, this course covers pre-colonial, colonial, revolutionary and national literature through the Civil War. The course includes writers such as Bradford, Bradstreet, Cooper, Emerson, Franklin, Hawthorne, Irving, Melville, Paine, Poe, Thoreau and Wheatley. Prerequisite: Reading Proficiency.
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3.00 Credits
Presenting United States literature written between 1865 and 1945, this course includes writers such as Adams, Cather, Chopin, Crane, Cullen, Cummings, Dickinson, DuBois, Eliot, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Frost, Gilman, H.D., Hemingway, Hughes, James, Jewett, Millay, Moore, O'Neill, Porter, Pound, Stevens, Twain, Washington, Wharton, Whitman, Williams. Prerequisite: Reading Proficiency.
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3.00 Credits
Presenting United States literature after 1945, this course includes writers such as Albee, Baldwin, Bellow, Bishop, Brooks, Ellison, Erdrich, Ginsberg, Gluck, Kingston, Levertov, Lowell, Malamud, Miller, Morrison, Plath, Rich, Sexton, Shepard, Silko, Snyder, Updike, Vonnegut, Welty, Williams, and Wright. Prerequisite: Reading Proficiency.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores American humor primarily in written sketches, short stories, and novels by authors from Twain and Thurber to Bombeck and Vonnegut. It also analyzes jokes, movies, comic strips, stand-up comedians, and television sit-coms. The course questions what American humor is, what forces have shaped its growth, what personal and social functions it serves, and what value it might have for contemporary Americans. Prerequisite: Reading Proficiency.
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3.00 Credits
An investigation into the best literature written in the British Isles, starting with the rough, oral Anglo-Saxon tales of warriors, to the chivalric romances of and bawdy stories about knights and common people, to the searching but exciting poems and plays of the English Renaissance, and finally to the carefully refined 18th Century Literature. The course emphasizes finding the ways in which literature explores the virtues and foibles of human nature and relating these qualities to modern experiences. Prerequisite: Reading Proficiency.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers representative works of major British writers from William Blake at the beginning of the nineteenth century to James Joyce in the twentieth century. The material may consist of poetry, prose essays, short stories, novels and plays. Upon successful completion of the course, students should be aware of the dominant social, cultural and artistic concerns of the period as reflected in the literature. Prerequisite: Reading Proficiency.
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3.00 Credits
Some of the greatest fiction is neglected because of its length--too long for short story collections and too short to be included in courses on the novel. This is the short novel or novella--a distinct literary type. Students in this course will study works by such writers as Melville, Tolstoy, Baldwin, Dostoyevski, Chopin, Conrad, Faulkner, Porter, Wright and others. Prerequisite: Reading Proficiency.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the post-WWII novel and short story with emphasis on the fiction of the past fifteen years. In it, students will look at each fictional work as an artistic creation and also as a social document and will, thereby, consider the ways in which contemporary art reflects and is reflected by the customs and values of contemporary society. Prerequisite: Reading Proficiency.
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus on major themes and writers in the horror and fantasy genre (science fiction may be discussed but will not be the primary aim of the course). By looking at major works of fantasy and horror from the gothic romances to the 20th century, students will study the causes, effects and nature of the genre. Readings will be supplemented by films. Prerequisite: Reading Proficiency.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the role of women in fiction, drama, poetry and other literary genres, with primary emphasis on works written by women. Prerequisite: Reading Proficiency.
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