A course designed to help faculty-referred students strengthen and refine college English
skills and achieve course learning outcomes. Under faculty supervision, students utilize
technology, receive tutoring, attend workshops, and engage in writing, reading, study
skills, or research.
Critical analysis of literary texts in relation to film. Develop critical thinking and literary analysis skills, and acquire knowledge of literary and film techniques, by examining the relationship between filmed and written versions of a single text, theme, social issue, historical period, or ethnic/cultural experience.
An exploration of contemporary women's writing: fiction, poetry, drama, creative nonfiction, and hybrid forms written in English by contemporary women from diverse social, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.
A survey of literature written in English by women over the last four hundred years,
emphasizing nineteenth and early twentieth century novels, poetry, and drama by major
as well as rediscovered authors prior to 1970.
Children's and young adult literature from fairy tales to vampires, from monsters to magicians, including history, features, and cultural influences. Literary criticism and analysis applied to texts from diverse authors, cultures, and time periods, plus the social construction of the experience of youth and the meaning of "childhood."
A survey of Shakespeare's plays and poetry that emphasizes his growth as a literary artist and the social and artistic forces which shaped his work in the Elizabethan/Jacobean periods. Students learn strategies for textual analysis and interpretation, engage in in-depth discussion, write critical essays, and develop analytical and creative projects.
This course focuses on the graphic novel as a literary and artistic medium exploring a variety of topics in a sophisticated and compelling manner unique to this genre.
An introduction to the Bible in English--one of Western culture's most influential books and an important source for literature--through a study of its literary aspects, interpretative methods, and historical context.
The roots, twentieth-century rise, and contemporary status of the science fiction and fantasy literary genres are studied. Focus is on recurrent themes and tropes, as well as the mythological, philosophical, and socio-cultural foundations from which they arise.
Introduction to a selection of some of the most impactful pieces of modern literature written between 1650 and the present, considering the historical circumstances that these texts grew out of and often respond to, and the historical context, through periods of Enlightenment, Neoclassicism, colonization, slavery, war, resistance, emancipation, Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism.