Literature Degrees

...or a starving, half-naked survivor, the encounter with place shapes what travel writing can be. Accordingly, we will pay attention not only to narrative texts but to...

...What should we watch for when viewing his plays in performance? Whose plays are we watching, anyway? We'll consider these questions as we carefully examine...

...analyses into interpretations and explore theoretical issues related to spectatorship. Lectures: 2 sessions / week**, 1 hour / session Recitations...

...of narratives with consideration of the historical, cultural, and technological factors that have influenced how tales got told. In keeping with its CI-H and HASS-D label...

...the functions of media, the history of transformations in media and the institutions that help define media's place in society. This year’s course will... Learn about: Media Studies, Communication Training, Network Training...

...and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Includes...

...These shared issues include (but are not limited to): the attempt to quantify or otherwise explain the presence of chance, risk, and contingency in everyday...

...five of the works we read give variety to the course and time to think about the interplay of film and print. 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session...

...we will traverse genres, periods and cultures to reflect on various types of humor: satire, farce, slapstick, love, tragedy, parody, and screwball. Lectures...

...Students will write two brief papers: a critical essay and an experiment in memoir. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session What is a "life"...

...It involves studies in questions of knowing, from materialist puzzles through metaphysical meditations to elegant whimsy, from murder in an English country...

...they are a site of experimentation—a way of trying out new authors and new themes." This course meets in the second half of the semester. Sessions...

...as well as some of their reflections in prose on what poetry does, on what other poets do, and what it means to write in English from the historical...

...With help from philosophers, contemporary cultural historians, and others, we will begin to think about a media practice largely taken for granted in our own moment... Learn about: Social Networking...

...My department has decided to test out such 6-unit subjects, in the hope of enlarging the scope of our offerings and reducing time/scheduling pressures on prospective students...

...Renaissance lyrics and a play, 18th-century satires in words and images, 19th century irony, modern stories and film. A list of topics covered in the course...

...and musical points of view. Readings supply critical and background materials from a number of sources. Visitors and films bring additional perspectives... Learn about: Folk Music...

...and (3) trace the emergence of subsequent theoretical paradigms as responses to what came before. Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session This subject...

...philosophical aspiration, and political ambition that continue to shape modern cultures. This class will be exploring the Golden Age of Latin Literature...

..."He will be the most expert investigator of the Holy Scriptures who has first read all of them and has some knowledge of them, at least through reading...