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This interdisciplinary course studies the pursuit of truth by O'Neill in religion, philosophy and psychology. O'Neill founded American dramatic literature. He was a life-long Catholic who doubted God's existence; an optimist who confronted humankind's darkest secrets. This drama-religion-philosophy course will examine his great plays and the themes of each. Offered fall, alternate years. 3 credits
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An examination of the Eruopea Renaissance and the early modern world through the lens of cultural history, with particular focus on Italy and England.
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This Nobel Prize winning author is considered to be difficult to read, but he is generally acknowledged as one of the great masters of American fiction. Students in this class will learn how to enjoy reading some of the most challenging and aesthetically rewarding prose in the English language. Readings include short stories and novels in a variety of prose styles. Offered fall, alternate years. 3 credits
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Throughout the centuries, biblical stories have been the inspiration for great art in a variety of media, most especially literature, music, and the visual arts. This course will focus on the story of the Creation, the Fall, and Redemption as it is treated in John Milton's Paradise Lost, George F. Handel's Messiah, the paintings of William Blake and Gustave Dore, and other artistic interpretations of both Old and New Testament biblical narratives. Course enrollment is limited to Honors students. 3 credits
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This course explores the poetic beauty and imagination of poetry written from the hearts and minds of poets who were also priests: John Donne and Gerald Manley Hopkins, as well as contemporary Philadelphia priest-poet John McNamee author of Clay Vessels. Offered fall, alternate years. 3 credits
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This Honors "Heritage" course provides a detailed examination of the European Renaissance from its Italian origins to its unique manifestation in the literature and culture of England. Students will explore the dynamic cultural history of a watershed moment in the transformation of the western world. They will interrogate important yet controversial notions of art, culture, and historical periodization-seen through the linked lenses of primary, secondary, and interdisciplinary sources. Course enrollment is limited to Honors students. 3 credits
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In this "Individual and Society" course students will examine various arguments about what and who defines beauty in America. Students will also explore how a culturally constructed standard of beauty becomes complicated by questions about race, class, and gender. Student researchers will gather data on subjects such as the impact of media on perceptions of physical attractiveness, body satisfaction in different cultures, and the relationship between beauty and justice. The class will develop a consensus theory of beauty that will be applied to texts-material and literary-to see how those texts both express and shape an evolving culture of beauty in America. Course enrollment is limited to Honors students. 3 credits
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From the 1990s to the present, critics and scholars have noted a revolution in long-form storytelling on television, both in drama and comedy. Groundbreaking and ambitious series such as The Sopranos, Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, Deadwood, The Wire, 24, Lost, and Mad Men have irrevocably transformed the media landscape. What many have termed a new "golden age" of television has emerged to challenge the traditional artistic dominance of cinema. We now find television, at its best, claiming the status of art and discovering in its narratives the richness of character and plotting once assumed to the be the domain of novels. This course endeavors a scholarly appraisal of television, with special attention to how the medium not only emulates literary narrative, but is in fact transforming narrative as we know it. Course enrollment is limited to Honors students. 3 credits
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