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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A writing course designed as a general introduction to the strategies of literary composition. Through sustained and systematic practice in the techniques that stimulate and refine creative writing, students will exercise and develop intuitive and critical abilities essential to significant artistic achievement. Generally offered once a year. 3 credits
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1.00 Credits
This is a course designed to complement work in HU 114(H). Students will refine their understanding of the writing process as they continue to gain a greater appreciation for the relationship between reading texts intelligently and writing with clarity and precision. Each week, following class discussions on the readings, students will be given topics for writing assignments that pertain to the readings. The essays or writing projects (creative and expository) will vary in length; the student will write a total of 25-30 pages. Generally offered each Spring Semester. 1 credit
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3.00 Credits
A study of the thematic and stylistic range of the short story, with a concentration on the work of several English-language masters of the genre, such as Hawthorne, Poe, James, Crane, Joyce, Hemingway, O'Connor, and Oates. Generally offered every other year. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This introductory survey traces the development of a distinctly American literary tradition in relation to questions of national identity, selfhood, gender, and race. Drawn from contact and colonial writing through the ante-bellum period, readings may include Native American myths; exploration and captivity narratives; religious writing; poems by Bradstreet, Taylor, Whittier, and Longfellow; autobiographies by Franklin and Douglass; essays by Emerson and Thoreau; fiction by Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
The second part of Masterpieces of American Literature introduces students to major American achievements in poetry, fiction, drama, and non-fictional prose from post-Civil War era through the second half of the twentieth century. Readings may include the poetry of Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Hughes, and Bishop; the fiction of James, Twain, Wharton, and Faulkner; the drama of O'Neill and Williams; the prose of Washington and DuBois. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
Introduces students to the treasures of British literature: the tales of Chaucer; sonnets of Shakespeare; poems of Sidney, Spenser, Donne, Marvell, Milton, Dryden, Pope; essays of Swift and Samuel Johnson. Making use of some of the most beautiful and suggestive literary texts in English, this course helps students to become confident and responsive readers of literature. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
The second half of Masterworks of British Literature explores selections from among the prose and poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats; the works of Tennyson, Arnold, the Brownings, Ruskin, Mill, Newman, Carlyle, Pater; and such modern poets as Yeats, Eliot, Auden, and Heaney. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores the nature of tragedy by looking at recurrent patterns in plays that have haunted the imagination of generations. It intends to raise questions about the relationship between tragic drama and "the tragic vision of life" and to consider if it is possibleto write tragedy today. Readings may include plays by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Shelley, Ibsen, O'Neill, Brecht, and Ionesco, as well as selected criticism. Generally offered every other year. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
Like tragedy, comedy has its roots in ancient myth and ritual, but its spirit is one of celebration. Comedy is a genre versatile enough to encompass social commentary, psychological observations, and philosophical issues. This course focuses principally on the works of playwrights such as Aristophanes, Plautus, Shakespeare, Moliere, Congréve, Wycherley, Wilde, Shaw, Chekov, Beckett, and Pinter. Generally offered every other year. 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the excitement and variety of modern drama. It begins with the roots of modern drama in the nineteenth-century (Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov, and Shaw) and continues into the present with such playwrights as O'Neill, Eliot, Miller, Williams, Beckett, Albee, and Pinter. Generally offered every other year. 3 credits
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