Literature Undergraduate Degrees

...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...

...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: Intellectual Property, 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...