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English 30: INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
MULTIPLE SECTIONS, VARIOUS INSTRUCTORS
As Elizabeth Hardwick, a literary critic and fiction writer, once famously remarked, “The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.” In this course, you, too, will cultivate your passion for reading and perhaps for writing your own works of literature someday. The purpose of this course is to read (poetry, short stories, and drama) with pleasure and understanding. The course will emphasize close reading of texts and the development of analytical and critical thinking skills that are the foundation of good thinking in any discipline.
ENGLISH 32: EUROPEAN LITERATURE
SECTION D01DW PROFESSOR FRIDMAN
In this course, students will learn to explore and creatively interpret the diverse body of literature written by European authors. Students will read literature from various nations, in different forms of expression—drama, poetry, and the novel—and of various representative eras in European history. There will be an emphasis on comparing the themes and motifs common to this group of writers, as well as their differences, in understanding self, history, and spirit. Bring an open mind and the commitment to read with the heart, the brain, the soul and all of the senses!
ENGLISH 40: SHORT FICTION
MULTIPLE SECTIONS, VARIOUS INSTRUCTORS
The genre of the short story is one of the most interesting literary forms to study. This course looks at the literary history and cultural contexts of masterful short literary works by a variety of authors of different ethnicities, cultures, genders and time periods. We will read for pleasure as well as to gain a deeper understanding of the short story through critical reading and writing.
ENGLISH 43: DRAMA
SECTION D01C W PROFESSOR GARTNER
The famous acting teacher Constantin Stanislavsky is reported once to have said, "I go to the theater to experience life." Dramatic literature has always brought us face to face with who we are, what we care about, and how we live. In this course we will read and discuss shorter plays by well-known playwrights and less well-known playwrights, too. Students will leave the class stronger readers, more confident writers, and more insightful thinkers, with a deepened appreciation not only for this distinctive form of imaginative literature but for the world we live in and share.
ENGLISH 57: CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY
SECTION D01E PROFESSOR WOOD
In this course, students will practice the art and craft of writing poetry. To help us better understand how poems work, we will also read widely and closely, examining a range of models, from traditional to experimental. Classes will be both workshop and discussion- based.
ENGLISH 64: ADVENTURE LITERATURE
SECTION DO1E PROFESSOR PARKER
A study of the writings about American identity through the lens of adventure and exploration. In this course, we will consider how a journey through a new landscape changes the traveler. We will hike the Alaskan wilderness, ride a city bus in the South, go on a cattle drive, and find ourselves alone in a place where we don’t speak the language. We will read a selection of short stories, travel essays, humor pieces, and poetry by some of the following writers: Henry David Thoreau, Flannery O’Connor, Sarah Vowell, David Sedaris, Jon Krakauer, and Annie Proulx.
ENGLISH 65: LITERATURE AND FILM
SECTION D01B PROFESSOR SINGER
This course is designed to explore the methods of how literature is interrelated with film by analyzing several short stories and novels and their respective film treatments. By focusing on representations of various themes, students will be encouraged to evaluate critically the nature of film’s unique relationship with literature. The approach to evaluating each text/film will depend on a “close reading” and other comparative analyses. References to other texts/essays/ films will help broaden the student’s background. When appropriate, the instructor will provide a critical foundation of relevant literary/film history and aesthetics. Texts include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Orwell’s 1984, Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, and
other texts.
ENGLISH 66: LITERATURE AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
SECTION D01B PROFESSOR WEISS
Imaginative literature is a treasure trove of insight about human psychology. One reason for this is that many authors transform images, feelings and ideas arising from the unconscious psyche into stories, dramas, and poetry. Since increased consciousness allows for increased psychological freedom, reading literature to grasp its psychological insights can help readers have more choices. In this course, we will focus on ways literature depicts aspects of unconsciousness such as ego inflation, awakening of the self, and shadow projection through characterization and symbolism. Works we will study include Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening, Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, E. M Forster’s “The Road from Colonus,” James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” and Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.”
ENGLISH 67: WOMEN AND LITERATURE
SECTION D01D PROFESSOR O’MALLEY
Funny, smart, passionate, defiant, moving—women writers have brought voices and experiences to enrich and challenge what was traditionally the largely male domain of literature. This course is part of the women’s studies curriculum.
ENGLISH 73: THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE I: BEGINNINGS TO 1865
SECTION D01E PROFESSOR: TBA
This course offers a survey of American literature and literary history from the early “discovering” and colonizing of America to the mid-nineteenth century. Students will read many well-known writers like Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Frederick Douglass as well as writings by women, Native Americans, Hispanics and African Americans. Students will acquire a greater comprehension of the historical, philosophical, religious and literary forces that shaped American life before the Civil War.
ENGLISH 78: CONTEMPORARY BLACK LITERATURE
SECTION D01C PROFESSOR RUDISEL
This course provides an introduction to the African-American literature produced during the latter part of the twentieth century (from 1940 into the present), and it also provides a continuum of African-American literature for those students who successfully complete English 77: The Roots of Black Literature (taught every spring semester). Topics of this very compelling period in American literature to be covered include, among others, the history of African-American Literature, the Harlem Renaissance, and recent African-American Literature since 1970.
ENGLISH 81: INDEPENDENT STUDY
SECTION D01D PROFESSOR ORSINI
Independent Study.
ENGLISH 82 : GAY AND LESBIAN LITERATURE
SECTION D01D PROFESSOR DILL
This course is about the universal themes of literature, such as the meaning of love, the role of nonconformity, the search for spirituality, and the power of family, within the conte xt of gay and lesbian literature. It also offers the opportunity to study literary themes particular to gay and lesbian literature, including (to cite just a few): escape from persecution, the urban experience, definitions of romance, sexuality and self-knowledge, the plight of the outcast, and alternative families. This course is part of the women’s studies curriculum.
ENGLISH 82: THE OUTSIDER
SECTION D01BH PROFESSOR: TBA
This course examines the troubles and triumphs of misfits, misanthropes, and those of us who, for one reason or another, just don’t fit in with the crowd. Independent thinkers and eccentrics are encouraged to enroll!
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