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Course Criteria
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1.00 Credits
Group 3,, lit 1 course A study of literature written in the first half of the 20th century and the main philosophical, social and aesthetic issues that shaped it. Writers might include Faulkner, Hemingway, Eliot, Williams, Dos Passos, Moore, Hurston, Hughes, and Wright.
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1.00 Credits
Group 3,, lit 1 course A study of literature since the end of World War II, including that of minority writers, and the main philosophical, social and aesthetic issues that shaped it. Writers might include Warren, Nabokov, Bishop, Roth, Morrison, Rich, Pynchon, Erdrich, Kingston and Cisneros.
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1.00 Credits
Group 3,, lit 1 course Designed for English majors and/or students with some background in Women's Studies. Topics will provide opportunities for in-depth analysis of women writers and gender literary analysis. Issues covered may include: images of women in literature; women's writing in historical/social context; feminist literature theory and literary criticism; intersections of race, class and gender; formation of the literary canon. May be repeated for credit with a different topic.
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1.00 Credits
Group 3,, lit 1 course In-depth study of one or more writers. Examples include Joyce, Morrison, Samuel Johnson, and Henry James.
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1.00 Credits
Group 3,, lit 1 course Study of works drawn from a specific literary genre or subgenre. Examples include Confessional Poetry, The Early Novel and Revenge Tragedy.
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1.00 Credits
Group 3,, lit 1 course A study of the relations between literature and culture, with a specific thematic focus. Examples include Literature and Law, American Gothic, and Drugs, Literature and Culturet.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Group 4, 1 course A study of literary representations of historical topics. Examples include Literature and Toleration, New England Heterodoxy, and Literature of Reform.
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1.00 Credits
Group 3,, lit 1 course Study of a specific topic within contemporary literary theory. Examples include The Rise and Fall of Deconstruction, Theories of the Avant Garde, and Film Theory.
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0.50 Credits
0.5 course An introduction to the problems of teaching composition, language and literature, primarily for those planning to teach English in the secondary schools. Prerequisite: a major in English or Communication and Theatre or permission of instructor. Generally offered second semester in even-numbered years.
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0.50 Credits
0.5 course An introduction to modern English linguistics, centering on the description of the structure of modern English, its sounds, words, phrases and sentences, but also considering such topics as the nature of language, dialectics, semantics, language change and language standardization. Designed for those who wish to learn more about the workings of English and for those who plan to teach. Open by permission of the instructor. Generally offered second semester in even-numbered years.
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