Courses Offered

Examines film as literature, as a visual and aural art, as technology, and as a medium which both reflects and influences social trends, values, and attitudes. Involves viewing a range of films and examining their place in film history.

• Gen Ed: HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

The distinctive characteristics of poetry, plays, short stories and the novel, intended to help students understand, appreciate and enjoy literature ranging from the classic to the contemporary.

• Gen Ed: HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

Surveys both women as writers and women as characters in literature; emphasizes the wisdom, experiences and insights of women writers and women in literature; concerned with literature from two or more cultures and comparison of the social and human values reflected in the literature of those cultures.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values

A first course focused on the analysis, understanding, appreciation, and techniques of writing poetry and fiction, as well as other genres at the discretion of the instructor.

• Gen Ed: HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

Chronological survey of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the end of the 18th century, including such writers as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Pope, and Swift.

• Gen Ed: HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

Chronological survey of English literature from the 19th century to the present, including such writers as Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Tennyson, Shaw, Conrad, Eliot and Thomas.

• Gen Ed: HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

Chronological survey of American literature from early exploration narratives to Melville, including such writers as Mather, Bradstreet, Paine, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Emerson and Thoreau.

• Gen Ed: HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

From Whitman to the present, including such writers as Dickinson, Twain, James, Crane, Eliot, Porter, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Cummings, Updike, Walker and Carver.

• Gen Ed: HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture

Chronological survey of world literatures from antiquity to roughly 1600. Texts studied will include Nonwestern as well as Western texts.

• Gen Ed: HS1 - Survey of Western Civilization

Chronological survey of world literatures other than those of England and the U.S. from rougly 1600 to the present. Texts studied will include Nonwestern as well as Western works.

• Gen Ed: HS1 - Survey of Western Civilization

Hands-on experience in the production of the Sheepshead Review, a literary magazine, from selecting submissions to editing the finished product. Projects include soliciting manuscripts and researching the literary market.

In this course students will learn how to conduct a literary analysis: how to read literature for complexity, how to make an original, organized argument about a literary text, and how to employ academic prose while developing their own writing voice.

Travel courses are conducted to various parts of the world and are led by one or more faculty members. May be repeated to different locations.

• Gen Ed: World Culture
• Travel Course
• Course is repeatable for credit.

Analysis of writing in various genres including individual and group criticism of original student materials in workshop context. Variable topics; may be repeated up to total of six credits.

• Course is repeatable to 6 credits.

Advanced practice in the writing of fiction, including group criticism of student work.

• Course is repeatable to 6 credits.

Advanced practice in the writing of poetry, including group criticism of student work.

• Course is repeatable to 6 credits.

Advanced study and workshop of creative nonfiction genres such as memoir, essay, book review, and interview.

The development of the English novel from its beginnings to the mid-Victorian period; includes works by such authors Defoe, Sterne, Fielding, Smolett, Austen, Scott, the Brontes, Thackeray, Dickens and Eliot.

The development of the English novel from Mid-Victorian to modern times; includes works by such authors as Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Wilde, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Bowen and Cary.

Study of one or more British, Irish or American dramatists and dramatic works.

• Course is repeatable to 6 credits.

Significant non-dramatic poetry from England, Ireland, and/or America.

• Course is repeatable to 6 credits.

In-depth examination of one or more topics, issues, or approaches in literary criticism or theory. May be repeated for credit when a different topic is studied.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

Hands-on experience in the production of the Sheepshead Review, a literary magazine, from selecting submissions to editing the finished product. Projects include soliciting manuscripts and researching the literary market.

Study of American prose fiction including examples of novels, short stories and satire; includes works by such authors as Melville, Twain, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Wright and Bellow.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

Explores a single theme such as fantasy, war, revolution, love or alienation through the literature of one or several nations. May be repeated for credit when a different theme is studied.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values
• Course is repeatable for credit.

Studies the works of a number of writers in relation to their time; includes poetry, prose and drama. May be repeated for credit when a different era is studied.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

The study of literature which examines the experience of ethnic groups in America, such as African, Asian, Hispanic, and Jewish Americans, and American Indians. May be repeated for credit when content is different.

• Gen Ed: Ethnic Studies
• Course is repeatable to 6 credits.

A study of selected works from world literatures. A variable content course.

• Gen Ed: HS2 - Literature, Film, and Culture
• Course is repeatable to 6 credits.

The origins, development, and cultural background of pronunciation and spelling, grammar, vocabulary, meaning and usage in Old, Middle, and Modern English, including contemporary English dialects.

Study of African American literature, exploring the aesthetic dimensions and cultural contexts of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays.

• Gen Ed: Ethnic Studies

The study of topics, through literature, with a focus on individual and social values. Topics may include subjects (i.e., the natural environment, calamities), genres (i.e., memoirs, detective novels), and adaptations (i.e., Shakespeare and opera). May be repeated for credit when content is different.

• Gen Ed: HS3 - Individual and Social Values
• Course is repeatable for credit.

Study of a representative selection of Shakespeare's poetry and plays, including comedies, tragedies and histories.

Study of one or more important writers in British, Irish, or American literature.

• Course is repeatable to 6 credits.

Supervised practical experience in an organization or activity appropriate to a student's career and educational interests. Internships are supervised by faculty members and require periodic student/faculty meetings.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

Independent study is offered on an individual basis at the student's request and consists of a program of learning activities planned in consultation with a faculty member. A student wishing to study or conduct research in an area not represented in available scheduled courses should develop a preliminary proposal and seek the sponsorship of a faculty member. The student's advisor can direct him or her to instructors with appropriate interests. A written report or equivalent is required for evaluation, and a short title describing the program must be sent early inthe semester to the registrar for entry on the student's transcript.

• Course is repeatable for credit.

Travel courses are conducted to various parts of the world and are led by one or more faculty members. May be repeated to different locations.

• Gen Ed: World Culture
• Travel Course
• Course is repeatable for credit.