Humanities Undergraduate Degrees

...1.5 hours / session This course consists of readings in the history of the form of the detective story, from the 19th-century to the present...

...Secondly, "they allow the Literature Faculty to offer occasional subjects that cannot be permanently and regularly offered. Finally, they are a site...

...and Walcott's Omeros (a modern epic set in the West Indies). Between these major narrative poems, we will read a rich selection of their shorter poems...

...poetry and prose fiction to twenty-first century social networking and microblogging sites, and from sculpture to photography, film, and digital visual media... Learn about: Social Networking...

..."Staying Alive." Content varies from semester to semester. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1 hour / session This subject is doubly an experiment...

...between literary themes, forms, and conventions and the times in which they were produced. Materials include: Medieval tales, riddles, and character sketches...

...The class sings ballads and folk songs from the Child and Lomax collections as well as other sources as we examine them from literary, historical... Learn about: Folk Music...

...conceived as the habitation of mankind, a source of imperatives for the collective organization and conduct of human life. In this sense, nature is... Learn about: Medical training...

...we will: (1) work through the selected readings in order to see how they construe what literary interpretation is; (2) locate the limits of each particular approach...

...was to have a profound and defining influence on Western European and American societies. These writings ultimately established lasting models of aesthetic refinement...

...Investigation of the Bible as influence in later narrative, philosophic, and artistic traditions. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session...

...evolution and that of principal knights, we will ask what underlies the appeal of this figure whose consistent reappearance in western culture has performed...

...that the most satisfying romantic love incorporates pain and violence, and that intense erotic pleasure can be found in celibate service to...

...the personal and political aspirations of the self in society; the constitution of ideal forms of social organization; the role of religion in the...

...of a new literary tradition by and for women from its earliest emergence in the West, wider historical and cultural movements will also be addressed...

...As Europeans came to acquire experience of unfamiliar places, literary texts of the period began to assimilate this experience by describing imagined voyages... Learn about: Renaissance Literature...

...If on the one hand Locke's theory led some to pronounce that individuals could determine the course of their own lives, however, the idea that we are...

...Why were they—and are they—called novels? Who wrote them? Who read them? Who narrates them? What are they likely to be about? Do they have distinctive characteristics?...

...tales of sentiment and sensibility, and the historical novel. Writing in the years of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic wars, and the early industrial revolution...

...are required to attend all class sessions and to participate. I do not evaluate class participation in terms of how many brilliant things you say in the course of the semester...