Literature Degrees

...intelligence programs like Eliza. With this base, students use authoring systems to model a variety of narrative techniques and to create their own fictions...

...in a workshop setting aimed at expanding the representational powers of a new creative medium. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Let's tell some stories...

...3 hours / session This class investigates theory and practice of digital or new media poetry with emphasis on workshop review of digital poetry created by students... Learn about: New Media...

...Lectures: 2 sessions/week, 1.5 hours/session None Seventeenth-century Europeans looked at the American landscape as outsiders and invested its distinctive...

..."Prisoner of the Wired World" through Robin Marantz Henig's cautionary account of nano-technology ("Our Silver-Coated Future") to David Quammen's investigation...

...The first half-century of sound included many of the most highly regarded Shakespeare films, among them - Laurence Olivier's Hamlet and Henry...

...bring a new kind of seriousness of purpose to comics, blurring what's left of the boundaries between the highbrow and the lowbrow? Readings and materials...

...in traditional Celtic societies, centering on the folkloristic work of Robert Kirk in late seventeenth-century Scotland, and his links with the Royal Society...

...Alfred. In Memoriam. W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN: 9780393979268. [DS] = The Wire: The Complete First Season. Created by David Simon. Home Box Office...

...it is my intention to generate a sort of ongoing cyberconversation. Lectures: 3 sessions / week, 1 hour / session Our purpose is to consider some of...

...1 hour / session This is an applied theory course covering topics in the political economy of democratic countries. This course examines political institutions... Learn about: Political Institutions...

...the major features of traditional Chinese society: religious and philosophical beliefs, the imperial system and dynastic change, gender relations...

...Saleh's Season of Migration to the North, Woolf's To the Lighthouse, John Cheever's "The Swimmer," Coetzee's The Life and Times of Michael... Learn about: Communication Training...

...CI course. Like other communications-intensive courses in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, it allows students to produce 20 pages of polished...

...the thematic lens of "dysfunctional families." We will focus primarily on questions pertaining to the structure, language, story, and characters of these fictional works...

...designed to sharpen your skills as a critical reader. As we explore both short stories and novels focusing on the theme of "the city in literature... Learn about: Communication Training...

...of the Poetry Foundation and the Academy of American Poets. We will also think collectively about how to approach difficult poems. Lectures... Learn about: Ms Word...

...William Wordsworth, John Keats, T.S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and some contemporary writers. A list of topics covered...

...that has to be performed, not read or recited. So it's odd that we read and study performance texts at all. Yet the idea of drama is so much a part...

...Like other communications-intensive classes in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, it allows students to produce 20 pages (5000 words)... Learn about: American Literature...