Literature Undergraduate Degrees

...should use the editions specified here. Books on order (in order in which they will be used): Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)...

...has been composed during the past century. Many of these plays are now acknowledged "classics" of modern drama; the rest are prize-winning contemporary... Learn about: Ms Office, Office IT...

...2 sessions / week; 1.5 hours / session None Exploring a new city is a bit like opening a book for the first time. A new world opens up, and we must... Learn about: Contemporary Literature...

...sometimes clashing – that are currently engaged in producing accounts of people in the developing world: their hardships, laughter, and courage... Learn about: Contemporary Literature, Human Rights...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session What is Britain now? Its metropolises are increasingly multicultural. Its hold over its distant colonies... Learn about: Contemporary Literature...

...will be to taste test the rich feast of current Irish writing fiction, drama, and poetry. The mode of the course will be discussion; you should come... Learn about: Contemporary Literature...

...and Toni Morrison. Previously taught topics include The American Revolution and Makeovers (i.e. adaptations and reinterpretation of novels traditionally...

...America's colonial past, its slave past, and other memorable and painful chapters in its past. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course explores the metaphorical...

...Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This course explores the ways in which various American artists view race and class as performed or performable identities... Learn about: American Literature...

...Art Spiegelman, Sherman Alexie, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Edwidge Danticat, and Alison Bechdel. Lectures: 1 session / week; 1.5 hours / session What is a "life"...

...the Harlem Renaissance, World War II, the 60s civil rights movements. A primary focus will be themes studied and understood through the lens of gender...

...and in theoretical works that endeavor to understand the culture of cities. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session Two courses in Literature Eliot...

...for instance], and part depends on the different attitudes toward traditional form. We read poets from North America (Whitman, Williams, Lowell...

...Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session Plagiarism - the use of another's intellectual work without acknowledgement - is a serious offense... Learn about: Communication Training...

...treating poems as messages to be deciphered. Poetry departs from the apparently straightforward sentences of narrative, exposition and argument-the stuff...

...haunt, enrich, and/or shape her writing, we will try to answer these questions and raise others. Readings in literary criticism, women's studies...

...novel no one ever reads—could just as well be said of any number of American "classics" like The Scarlet Letter, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn...

...1.5 hours / session This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers...

...and to think about the medium of drama as well as one writer's work in depth. Some seminar participants will report on earlier plays that influenced these writers...

...either legally or extra-legally (i.e. refused production, closed down during production, denied funding, or taken off school reading lists)... Learn about: IT Law...