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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to British and Anglophone literary traditions since 1700. The instructor may choose to focus the course on a pivotal literary moment, text, or theme. At least half the course will be devoted to literature before Modernism. The course will also draw upon at least two distinct cultures or traditions, at least one of which will be outside the British Isles.
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4.00 Credits
This is a topics course with no prerequisites, offered primarily for sophomores, juniors, and seniors. It may not be appropriate for freshmen.
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4.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide students with the opportunity to acquire a broad-based, foundational knowledge and understanding of American literature since 1800. Emphasis will be placed on formulating a coherent understanding of the texts, contexts, concerns, and problematics which have influenced the American literary tradition since the early nineteenth century.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of the relationships between writers, filmmakers, and American political culture. The course examines the many ways in which creative artists have historically engaged such issues as individualism, rights, public opinion, citizenship, and the responsibilities of democracy.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Reserved for junior and senior English Education students or by permission of instructor. This course focuses on canonical and contemporary works of literature written for children and young adults within the context of literary theory.
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4.00 Credits
(same as WGS 320) This course focuses on representations of men and masculinity in literary texts, although we may also look at film, video, television, advertising, and music. Some of the issues we will be thinking about include: the construction of modern male identities, the diversity of men's lives, the complex dynamics of men's relationships, and questions of power and social justice within the contemporary gender order.
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4.00 Credits
(same as WGS 376) This course will explore various literatures from around the world, encouraging students to examine the politics of gender, culture, and nation as well as the intersections of those systems of power. In exploring everything from arranged marriages to women in war, Global Women Writers will provide students- especially those students who have spent much of their lives within the borders of the U.S.-with one of the most challenging and rewarding courses of their college career. Common themes include feminist politics, post- and neo-colonialisms, reproductive rights, translation, globalization, and activism.
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4.00 Credits
(same as WGS 317) Exploration of the socio-historical constructions of the witch through a wide spectrum of literary texts: from medieval religious expositions to Puritan legal treatises, from German fairy tales to modern day films, from children's literature to critical theory, from 17th -century courtroom narratives to 21st -century propaganda.
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4.00 Credits
The course reconstructs the literary horizon of expectations for Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies at the time of their first performance. This will not be a course in Shakespeare per se but rather a course in the literary, dramatic, and cultural texts that shaped the literary expectations, perceptions, and tastes of Shakespeare and his audience.
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4.00 Credits
(same as WGS 360) A comparative study of Latina and Latin-American women's literature in English. Open to a wide range of literary traditions, nations, time periods, and genres, including those specific to non-Western and postColonial cultures. The focus varies by semester.
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