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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide an understanding of the ways in which writers employ and respond to the conventions of the major literary genres through the study of significant representative texts. Throughout the semester, works of literature from a wide variety of genres will be read in order to provide a basic knowledge of literary language, techniques and forms. Literary works will be evaluated through class discussion, oral presentations and written critical essays. While providing a general critical framework for analyzing literature, this course will also furnish students with a vocabulary of critical terms and an overview of the different literary techniques and forms used in various genres. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
Small groups of students meet to discuss, analyze, do research on, and report orally and in papers read before the group on selected topics in literature. Topics chosen each term by the instructor. This course may be taken more than once if content is different. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This is a career-oriented course with placement and supervised work in a professional setting in law, publishing, public relations, or the like to provide direct practical experience in the application of skills from academic course work. This course is not a regular classroom course. A student will usually have completed EEE 1. A student must arrange through the Department Chair to work with a particular faculty member before registering for this course. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
The decolonization of Africa was accompanied by the development of a diverse body of national literatures focused upon the struggle for liberation from European control as well as the problems engendered by political independence. These national literatures frequently address the destructive legacy of colonialism even as they present tangible alternatives for a renewal of African culture and society. Through a close reading of several novels representative of distinct African cultures in confrontation with English, French, and Belgian imperialism, we will explore the struggle of former colonies to rediscover their cultural roots and assess the far-reaching impact of colonial domination on African lives. Issues addressed in the class will include: the impact of colonization on the psyche of Africans, the interrelationship between racist, sexist, and economic forms of oppression, the issue of cultural authenticity as it relates to language and emergent post-colonial identities, the role of political resistance in constructing new cultural forms and communities in the wake of colonialism, and the persistence of various forms of neo-colonialism in African societies. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
Writing in the early twentieth century, social and literary critic Douglas Hyde observed that "the Irish race is at present in a most anomalous position, imitating England and yet apparently hating it. How can it produce anything good in literature, art, or institutions as long as it is actuated by motives so contradictory?" The movement now called the Irish Literary Renaissance is an attempt to resolve that contradiction; its goal was to question the influence of English literature on Irish writers, and develop a specifically Irish literature for an independent Irish nation. This course will be a writing intensive study in cultural context of the major Irish writers involved: Lady Augusta Gregory, John Millington Synge, Sean O'Casey, William Butler Yeats, and James Joyce. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
"Nothing in Ireland is ever over." Novelist Elizabeth Bowen's words remind readers that, in order to understand the Irish literary present, it is necessary to understand the Irish literary past. While some works of Irish literature are included in British literature anthologies, this course will focus on the ways in which Irish literature is not a subdivision of English literature. Instead, Irish literature can be read as defining the national character as separate from, and often in opposition to, British political power and artistic influence. The course surveys the literature of Ireland from the early myths and sagas of the eighth century, through the poets and balladeers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, to the dramatists of the Irish Literary Renaissance of the early twentieth century, and concluding with contemporary works of fiction and poetry. We will read representative works of wellknown authors such as Jonathan Swift, William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, and James Joyce, as well as newer works by twenty-first-century writers. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine works by Native Americans from the 1970s to the present. We will look at how writers and artists construct personal and collective identities, how they relate to specific events and general trends in North American history, and how they interact with dominant European-American cultures and other groups. We will also explore what "native" now means and how it coincides with the changing definitions of "nation" and "culture." The class will also look at the changing field of literature in general and how literature and literary study are affected by other media, including film and video, music recording, radio and television, and above all, the internet. The political dimension of the works sometimes seems inescapable, but the results are often unpredictable, well balanced, funny, and remarkably beautiful. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
Through a close reading of both European and non-European literary and theoretical works, this course will explore the central economic, political, and psychological problems left in the wake of the period of decolonization in the third quarter of the twentieth century. Issues addressed in the class will include: the impact of colonialism upon the psyches of colonizer and colonized alike, the representation of colonized cultures in European consciousness along with challenges to those representations, the instrumental role of paradigms of gender in patterns of colonial domination, the interrelationship between racial, sexual, and economic forms of oppression, and the issue of cultural authenticity as it relates to language and emergent postcolonial identities. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
For African Americans, the twentieth century began with an exodus from the South in the hopes of finding greater opportunity and freedom. Yet this journey was shaped by an ongoing struggle against racism, violence, and socio-economic disenfranchisement. In part, this course examines the artistic response to the social conditions facing African Americans in the twentieth century. With a specific emphasis on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and Black Feminism, this class investigates the impact of African-American literature on American culture more broadly. How do these movements relate to and differ from other artistic and cultural trends at the time? How do African-American writers interrogate notions of race and ethnicity? Through texts, visual arts, and music, these works challenge us to evaluate the role that racism continues to play in contemporary American culture. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of narratives concerning African- American slaves - some autobiographical, some fictional. How, we will ask, did various representations of slaves not only serve abolitionist goals but also address changing attitudes toward race, gender, law, property, and national identity? The course also considers the literary-rhetorical aspects of the writings and analyzes the blending of literary and historical discourse, leading to questions about what role the "construction" of the African-American past plays in acts of collective memory. Readings may include the following: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, Melville's Benito Cereno, Twain''s Huckleberry Finn, Chesnutt's Conjure Woman tales, and Morrison''s Beloved. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.
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