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  • 4.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Reserved for English students This course is designed to provide students with an overview and basic comprehension of the diverse forms and devices of poetry; in particular, students will develop a fundamental understanding of poetry's rhetorical structures and conventions.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Prerequisite: Reserved for English students An introduction to the various approaches and theories employed by professional literary critics and scholars to enhance students' understanding, evaluation, and appreciation of literary works. The course has an intensive focus on helping students think critically and write skillfully about literature.
  • 4.00 Credits

    (formerly LIT 217/Multicultural Literature) Prerequisite: Reserved for English students An exploration of how cultural values, aesthetics, and social constructions of race and ethnicity shape literary texts and literary production. Students will engage in debates involving aesthetic value, disciplinary politics, universality, and canonicity, and examine the role of power, categories of difference, and intersectionality.
  • 4.00 Credits

    Provides students with an overview and basic comprehension of the diverse forms and functions of film as an art form; in particular, students will develop a fundamental understanding of the history, structure and conventions of film, by analyzing films that adhere to and/or challenge this generic tradition.
  • 4.00 Credits

    (same as CMP 227) This course introduces students to the fundamental aspects of animation as an art form in a global context. Students will develop a fundamental understanding of the history, structure, and conventions of animated film by analyzing a range of works within this broad tradition.
  • 4.00 Credits

    (same as CMP 230) Introduces students to a literary tradition that originates in the classical period. The course will put readings into literary and historical context by focusing on a pivotal literary moment or text. The course will explore literary and historical relations - the textual ancestors and progeny that make up the particular classical tradition under consideration, as well as the surrounding philological, social, and political contexts of the selected pivotal moment in that tradition. The course will also draw upon at least two distinct cultures, at least one of which must be classical.
  • 4.00 Credits

    (same as CMP 231) Introduces students to selected literary traditions before 1700. The course will put readings into literary and historical context by focusing on a pivotal literary moment or text. The course will explore literary and historical relations-the textual ancestors and progeny that influenced or rewrote the pivotal text of the course, as well as the surrounding philological, social, and political contexts of the selected literary moment. The course will also draw upon at least two distinct cultures or traditions, at least one of which must be non-English-speaking.
  • 4.00 Credits

    (same as CMP 232) Introduces students to selected literary traditions since 1700. The course will put readings into literary and historical context by focusing on a pivotal literary moment or text. The course will explore literary and historical relations-the textual ancestors and progeny that influenced or rewrote the pivotal text of the course, as well as the surrounding philological, social, and political contexts of the selected literary moment. The course will also draw upon at least two distinct cultures or traditions, at least one of which must be non-English-speaking.
  • 4.00 Credits

    (same as TTR 233) Scholarly study of plays from the classical to contemporary periods as literary texts. Readings, lecture, discussion, and papers also examine aspects of theatrical production, thus providing a broad background in the theory, history, structure, terminology, conventions, and subgenres of drama and theatre. Emphasis is on western drama but examples of nonwestern comedy and tragedy are included.
  • 4.00 Credits

    In this course, students take a close look at specific literary techniques and genres, and at aspects of British culture, in selected examples of pre-1660 British literature. The course is designed to engage students in the analysis and interpretation of texts in their diverse historical, aesthetic, cultural, and theoretical contexts; and to lead to an understanding and appreciation of the development of literary traditions, cultural values, modes of thought, and uses of language.
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