Any of the prerequisites are accepted

This course discusses the basic kinds of writing used most frequently in the media, informative and persuasive writing.

$75 fee for non-majors and part-time students.

This course discusses the basic kinds of writing used most frequently in the media, informative and persuasive writing.

$75 fee for non-majors and part-time students.

This course introduces topics in matrix algebra for applications that are basic to future coursework in mathematics. Topics include vector spaces, determinants, matrices, linear transformations, and eigenvectors.

This course introduces topics in matrix algebra for applications that are basic to future coursework in mathematics. Topics include vector spaces, determinants, matrices, linear transformations, and eigenvectors.

This course introduces topics in matrix algebra for applications that are basic to future coursework in mathematics. Topics include vector spaces, determinants, matrices, linear transformations, and eigenvectors.

This course introduces topics in matrix algebra for applications that are basic to future coursework in mathematics. Topics include vector spaces, determinants, matrices, linear transformations, and eigenvectors.

This course bridges infinitesimal calculus and the world of sets, relations, digraphs, lattices, logic, etc. Topics include algebraic flow chart language, syntax and semantics, isomorphisms and invariants, directed graphs, Boolean algebra, permutations and cyclic groups, polish expressions, etc.

This course bridges infinitesimal calculus and the world of sets, relations, digraphs, lattices, logic, etc. Topics include algebraic flow chart language, syntax and semantics, isomorphisms and invariants, directed graphs, Boolean algebra, permutations and cyclic groups, polish expressions, etc.

This course bridges infinitesimal calculus and the world of sets, relations, digraphs, lattices, logic, etc. Topics include algebraic flow chart language, syntax and semantics, isomorphisms and invariants, directed graphs, Boolean algebra, permutations and cyclic groups, polish expressions, etc.

This course bridges infinitesimal calculus and the world of sets, relations, digraphs, lattices, logic, etc. Topics include algebraic flow chart language, syntax and semantics, isomorphisms and invariants, directed graphs, Boolean algebra, permutations and cyclic groups, polish expressions, etc.

This course is an introduction to the basic tools needed to read and write about English and American poetry, including the concepts of genre, form, meter, figurative representation, and history.

This course is an introduction to the basic tools needed to read and write about English and American poetry, including the concepts of genre, form, meter, figurative representation, and history.

This course introduces students to reading films and gives some familiarity with film criticism.  Students focus on different aspects of film, such as mise en scene, acting, editing, sound, photography, and ideology in order to understand both the aesthetic and the political role film plays in modern life.

This course replaces ENGL A370, How To Read A Film

This course introduces students to reading films and gives some familiarity with film criticism.  Students focus on different aspects of film, such as mise en scene, acting, editing, sound, photography, and ideology in order to understand both the aesthetic and the political role film plays in modern life.

This course replaces ENGL A370, How To Read A Film

This course focuses on the research process, evaluation of sources, and in-depth writing assignments with emphasis on primary research.

This course focuses on the research process, evaluation of sources, and in-depth writing assignments with emphasis on primary research.

This is a multi-genre introductory course in the theory and practice of creative writing.  Students learn critical reading skills, writing skills, and the elements of creative writing by reading and analyzing a wide range of literature across genres including poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, and screenplay. Student work is read and critiqued in a workshop setting. Students complete a portfolio of revised original creative work.

This is a multi-genre introductory course in the theory and practice of creative writing.  Students learn critical reading skills, writing skills, and the elements of creative writing by reading and analyzing a wide range of literature across genres including poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, and screenplay. Student work is read and critiqued in a workshop setting. Students complete a portfolio of revised original creative work.

This course provides a foundation in English literary history from the medieval period through the 17th century. Reading works across contiguous historical periods, students explore their significance in historical, formal, and aesthetic contexts, and we consider how contemporary critical approaches enhance our understanding of this material.

This course provides a foundation in English literary history from the medieval period through the 17th century. Reading works across contiguous historical periods, students explore their significance in historical, formal, and aesthetic contexts, and we consider how contemporary critical approaches enhance our understanding of this material.

This course explores developments in English literary history from 1700 to the present. Reading works across contiguous historical periods, we consider their significance in historical, formal, and aesthetic contexts, and we experiment with critical approaches to enhance our understanding of this material.

This course explores developments in English literary history from 1700 to the present. Reading works across contiguous historical periods, we consider their significance in historical, formal, and aesthetic contexts, and we experiment with critical approaches to enhance our understanding of this material.

This course provides an introduction to the means by which creative narratives are being re-interpreted through film and other digital media.

This course provides an introduction to the means by which creative narratives are being re-interpreted through film and other digital media.

This course considers video games as a cultural form. It prepares students to analyze and compare the ways video games make meaning and participate in the social lives of their players.  It introduces students to critical discussions surrounding video games and some methodologies for interpreting them. 

This course considers video games as a cultural form. It prepares students to analyze and compare the ways video games make meaning and participate in the social lives of their players.  It introduces students to critical discussions surrounding video games and some methodologies for interpreting them. 

This course provides a history and survey of American creative nonfiction, with the emphasis on its development into a major genre in the second half of the twentieth century.  Assignments focus on both writing nonfiction as well as crafting critical analyses of its techniques, themes, and impact.  

This course provides a history and survey of American creative nonfiction, with the emphasis on its development into a major genre in the second half of the twentieth century.  Assignments focus on both writing nonfiction as well as crafting critical analyses of its techniques, themes, and impact.  

This course is an introduction to contemporary nonfiction writing in a variety of forms including autobiography, travel writing, and the personal essay.

This course is an introduction to contemporary nonfiction writing in a variety of forms including autobiography, travel writing, and the personal essay.

This course introduces the student to modern short fiction, beginning with Chekhov. The emphasis is on authors writing in languages other than English.

This course introduces the student to modern short fiction, beginning with Chekhov. The emphasis is on authors writing in languages other than English.

This courses acts as a student's introduction to Shakespearean drama. In addition to covering the cultural and thematic content of the plays, close attention is given to Shakespeare's use of the visual, spatial, and temporal elements of stagecraft that distinguish his drama as a performance art.

This courses acts as a student's introduction to Shakespearean drama. In addition to covering the cultural and thematic content of the plays, close attention is given to Shakespeare's use of the visual, spatial, and temporal elements of stagecraft that distinguish his drama as a performance art.

This is a course in statistical methods for science students. Emphasis centers on the practical application of statistical inference and estimation in the quest for scientific knowledge. Topics include exploratory data analysis, techniques for data collection, summarization, and presentation, graphical techniques and numerical measures, the role of the Normal distribution, regression and correlation analysis, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, the analysis of variance, and distribution-free methods.

This is a course in statistical methods for science students. Emphasis centers on the practical application of statistical inference and estimation in the quest for scientific knowledge. Topics include exploratory data analysis, techniques for data collection, summarization, and presentation, graphical techniques and numerical measures, the role of the Normal distribution, regression and correlation analysis, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, the analysis of variance, and distribution-free methods.

This is a course in statistical methods for science students. Emphasis centers on the practical application of statistical inference and estimation in the quest for scientific knowledge. Topics include exploratory data analysis, techniques for data collection, summarization, and presentation, graphical techniques and numerical measures, the role of the Normal distribution, regression and correlation analysis, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, the analysis of variance, and distribution-free methods.

This is a course in statistical methods for science students. Emphasis centers on the practical application of statistical inference and estimation in the quest for scientific knowledge. Topics include exploratory data analysis, techniques for data collection, summarization, and presentation, graphical techniques and numerical measures, the role of the Normal distribution, regression and correlation analysis, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, the analysis of variance, and distribution-free methods.

Optional lab accompaniment for Math A260.

Optional lab accompaniment for Math A260.

Optional lab accompaniment for Math A260.

History of Film is an introduction to the rich history and legacy of the motion picture as a commercial art form. The goal of the course is to educate students on the major figures and developments in cinema. Students who successfully complete the course will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of major events, figures, and films in the history of cinema and will be comfortable with writing about film as a narrative art.

History of Film is an introduction to the rich history and legacy of the motion picture as a commercial art form. The goal of the course is to educate students on the major figures and developments in cinema. Students who successfully complete the course will be able to demonstrate their knowledge of major events, figures, and films in the history of cinema and will be comfortable with writing about film as a narrative art.

This course offers literary readings from Spain. Texts from the Middle Ages through the Golden Age/Baroque period are used.

This course offers literary readings from Spain. Texts from the Middle Ages through the Golden Age/Baroque period are used.

This course focuses on Spanish literary readings from the 18th century to the present and examines relevant themes, movements and social issues.

This course focuses on Spanish literary readings from the 18th century to the present and examines relevant themes, movements and social issues.

This course is a historical approach to Spanish civilization.  Students study elements of Spanish culture including the languages, music, arts, architecture, and current socio-political issues.

This course is a historical approach to Spanish civilization.  Students study elements of Spanish culture including the languages, music, arts, architecture, and current socio-political issues.

This courses offers a broad introduction to texts written in the British Isles between the beginning of the eighth century and the end of the fifteenth. Students study a wide array of medieval literary genres and their conventions. Further reading and discussion are devoted to the literary, historical, political, cultural, artistic, philosophical, and theological contexts for the various modes of written expression studied in the course.

This courses offers a broad introduction to texts written in the British Isles between the beginning of the eighth century and the end of the fifteenth. Students study a wide array of medieval literary genres and their conventions. Further reading and discussion are devoted to the literary, historical, political, cultural, artistic, philosophical, and theological contexts for the various modes of written expression studied in the course.

Writing the Short Script focuses on monologues, dialogues and short scripts. Designed to strengthen the dialogue and blocking skills of students interested in writing fiction, nonfiction, screenplays and stage plays, the course combines readings of modern and contemporary literature with workshop discussions and individual conferences with the instructor about writing assignments.

Writing the Short Script focuses on monologues, dialogues and short scripts. Designed to strengthen the dialogue and blocking skills of students interested in writing fiction, nonfiction, screenplays and stage plays, the course combines readings of modern and contemporary literature with workshop discussions and individual conferences with the instructor about writing assignments.

This course provides an introduction to the dramatic and poetic works from Shakespeare's literary “apprenticeship” of the early 1590s to 1600. Situating Shakespeare’s works in their dynamic historical context—including the Protestant Reformation, the age of exploration, the rise of capitalism, the urban landscape of London, and the popular new public theatres—we study how these plays and poems spoke to Renaissance auditors and how they pose timeless questions for new audiences.

This course provides an introduction to the dramatic and poetic works from Shakespeare's literary “apprenticeship” of the early 1590s to 1600. Situating Shakespeare’s works in their dynamic historical context—including the Protestant Reformation, the age of exploration, the rise of capitalism, the urban landscape of London, and the popular new public theatres—we study how these plays and poems spoke to Renaissance auditors and how they pose timeless questions for new audiences.

This course focuses on Shakespeare's works after 1600. Established by this time as a successful playwright and poet, Shakespeare takes greater risks with language, form, and themes in this second half of his career. Tracking these innovations through his late comedies and the genres of tragedy and romance that he preferred during this time, we attend to Shakespeare's work in its broader cultural and artistic context.

This course focuses on Shakespeare's works after 1600. Established by this time as a successful playwright and poet, Shakespeare takes greater risks with language, form, and themes in this second half of his career. Tracking these innovations through his late comedies and the genres of tragedy and romance that he preferred during this time, we attend to Shakespeare's work in its broader cultural and artistic context.

Introduction to applied quantitative and qualitative research methods in advertising/public relations campaign development, management, and evaluation.

Introduction to applied quantitative and qualitative research methods in advertising/public relations campaign development, management, and evaluation.

This course is a survey of African-American literature from the late 18th-century through Reconstruction to 1900.  The course examines various types of African-American literary and cultural productions, including folk narratives, autobiographies, slave narratives, essays, speeches, poetry, and short fiction, as well as the historical, cultural, socio-political and literary contexts in which they were produced.

This course is a survey of African-American literature from the late 18th-century through Reconstruction to 1900.  The course examines various types of African-American literary and cultural productions, including folk narratives, autobiographies, slave narratives, essays, speeches, poetry, and short fiction, as well as the historical, cultural, socio-political and literary contexts in which they were produced.

This course is a survey of African-American literature after 1900, providing an historical and cultural study of the foundational writers, themes, and genres of African-American literary production of the era. The course provides a conceptual framework for this literature, evaluates key terms, ideas, literary periods, constructions and representations of African-American identity and race, and the contributions of African-American writers to American literature and culture.

This course is a survey of African-American literature after 1900, providing an historical and cultural study of the foundational writers, themes, and genres of African-American literary production of the era. The course provides a conceptual framework for this literature, evaluates key terms, ideas, literary periods, constructions and representations of African-American identity and race, and the contributions of African-American writers to American literature and culture.

This course tracks narrative across multiple media forms. It prepares students to analyze and compare the ways narrative gets implemented by different media, as well as chart stories that extend beyond individual media objects. In the process, they will consider narrative's media-specificity even as it seems to transcend media.

This course tracks narrative across multiple media forms. It prepares students to analyze and compare the ways narrative gets implemented by different media, as well as chart stories that extend beyond individual media objects. In the process, they will consider narrative's media-specificity even as it seems to transcend media.

This course focuses on strategic planning and management of advertising and public relations cases in business, government, education, or community.

This course focuses on strategic planning and management of advertising and public relations cases in business, government, education, or community.

This course is a survey of postcolonial literatures from Africa, India, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Postcolonial literature largely emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, after people across the global South gained political independence from Western colonizers.  Readings focus on both the counter-narratives of history, memory, and identity that were central literary concerns after independence and more recent literary trends that explore globalization, cosmopolitanism, multilingualism, and migration.

This course is a survey of postcolonial literatures from Africa, India, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Postcolonial literature largely emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, after people across the global South gained political independence from Western colonizers.  Readings focus on both the counter-narratives of history, memory, and identity that were central literary concerns after independence and more recent literary trends that explore globalization, cosmopolitanism, multilingualism, and migration.

This course is a survey of postcolonial literatures from Africa, India, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Postcolonial literature largely emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, after people across the global South gained political independence from Western colonizers.  Readings focus on both the counter-narratives of history, memory, and identity that were central literary concerns after independence and more recent literary trends that explore globalization, cosmopolitanism, multilingualism, and migration.

This course is a survey of postcolonial literatures from Africa, India, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Postcolonial literature largely emerged in the second half of the twentieth century, after people across the global South gained political independence from Western colonizers.  Readings focus on both the counter-narratives of history, memory, and identity that were central literary concerns after independence and more recent literary trends that explore globalization, cosmopolitanism, multilingualism, and migration.

This course looks at events in terms of relationship building within the context of public relations events and functions. It develops events as a means of strategic communication. Students will analyze case histories, plan and execute events.

This course looks at events in terms of relationship building within the context of public relations events and functions. It develops events as a means of strategic communication. Students will analyze case histories, plan and execute events.

This course examines the literary and cinematic works of indigenous authors across the Americas. In this writing intensive course, students learn how to read, think and write critically about literature while exploring the historical and cultural realities of indigenous peoples in the Americas. The study of this literature adds nuance to the anthropological, sociological and historical “facts” to these different groups and their literatures. A focus on translation theory as the point of departure allows students a critical approach to these texts. This course is cross-listed with LAS-A336: Students only receive credit for successfully completing the first instance of the course/s.

This course examines the literary and cinematic works of indigenous authors across the Americas. In this writing intensive course, students learn how to read, think and write critically about literature while exploring the historical and cultural realities of indigenous peoples in the Americas. The study of this literature adds nuance to the anthropological, sociological and historical “facts” to these different groups and their literatures. A focus on translation theory as the point of departure allows students a critical approach to these texts. This course is cross-listed with ENGL-A336: Students only receive credit for successfully completing the first instance of the course/s.

This course examines the literary and cinematic works of indigenous authors across the Americas. In this writing intensive course, students learn how to read, think and write critically about literature while exploring the historical and cultural realities of indigenous peoples in the Americas. The study of this literature adds nuance to the anthropological, sociological and historical “facts” to these different groups and their literatures. A focus on translation theory as the point of departure allows students a critical approach to these texts. This course is cross-listed with ENGL-A336: Students only receive credit for successfully completing the first instance of the course/s.

This course examines the literary and cinematic works of indigenous authors across the Americas. In this writing intensive course, students learn how to read, think and write critically about literature while exploring the historical and cultural realities of indigenous peoples in the Americas. The study of this literature adds nuance to the anthropological, sociological and historical “facts” to these different groups and their literatures. A focus on translation theory as the point of departure allows students a critical approach to these texts. This course is cross-listed with LAS-A336: Students only receive credit for successfully completing the first instance of the course/s.

Introduction to strategic writing using informative and persuasive methods to create messages for print, digital, interactive, mobile and web-based media.

$75 fee for non-majors and part-time students.

Introduction to strategic writing using informative and persuasive methods to create messages for print, digital, interactive, mobile and web-based media.

$75 fee for non-majors and part-time students.

This course explores the variety and complexity of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Students approach the Tales as an anthology of literary forms current in fourteenth-century England and consider Chaucer’s genius in subverting the conventions of these forms. Students analyze selected tales from a variety of critical positions while also attending to the influence of 14th-century politics, religion, science, and art on the development of Chaucer’s poetry.

This course explores the variety and complexity of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Students approach the Tales as an anthology of literary forms current in fourteenth-century England and consider Chaucer’s genius in subverting the conventions of these forms. Students analyze selected tales from a variety of critical positions while also attending to the influence of 14th-century politics, religion, science, and art on the development of Chaucer’s poetry.

This course is a survey of Latin-American literature from the Discovery to the Romantic movement.

This course is a survey of Latin-American literature from the Discovery to the Romantic movement.

This course surveys English lyric poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by poets such as Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Whitney, Donne, Herbert, and Wroth. We consider how poets imagine, structure, and transform their craft at this time of both classical revival and extraordinary innovation.

This course surveys English lyric poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by poets such as Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Whitney, Donne, Herbert, and Wroth. We consider how poets imagine, structure, and transform their craft at this time of both classical revival and extraordinary innovation.

This course examines American novels and short stories from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, exploring such movements as realism, naturalism, regionalism, modernism, ethnic writing, and postmodernism.

This course examines American novels and short stories from 1900 to the turn of the twenty-first century, exploring such movements as realism, naturalism, regionalism, modernism, ethnic writing, and postmodernism.

This course examines the relationship between literature and place focusing on literary representations of New Orleans from the 1830s to the present. Readings include drama, poetry, and prose by natives and non-natives whose work both represents and constructs the mystique of the city.

This course examines the relationship between literature and place focusing on literary representations of New Orleans from the 1830s to the present. Readings include drama, poetry, and prose by natives and non-natives whose work both represents and constructs the mystique of the city.

This course explores the writers and literary traditions of Louisiana in the context of local, regional, and national concerns.  Readings include works of fiction, drama, and poetry from the colonial period to the present.

This course explores the writers and literary traditions of Louisiana in the context of local, regional, and national concerns.  Readings include works of fiction, drama, and poetry from the colonial period to the present.

This course explores shifting definitions and concepts of nature, environment, and ecology in a range of literary texts across different time periods, forms, and modes of aesthetic experimentation.

This course explores shifting definitions and concepts of nature, environment, and ecology in a range of literary texts across different time periods, forms, and modes of aesthetic experimentation.

This course is an introduction to the development and analysis of mathematical models with biological applications.  Topics include difference equations, stability and bifurcation analysis, population growth, predator-prey models, and models of infectious disease.  This course will also provide an introduction to the software package MATLAB.

This course is an introduction to the development and analysis of mathematical models with biological applications.  Topics include difference equations, stability and bifurcation analysis, population growth, predator-prey models, and models of infectious disease.  This course will also provide an introduction to the software package MATLAB.

This is a special topics course that offers students the opportunity to study film directors, genres, or ideological films.  This course may be repeated when topics change.

This is a special topics course that offers students the opportunity to study film directors, genres, or ideological films.  This course may be repeated when topics change.

This course highlights the contributions of African-American writers to the literary traditions of the United States. Those contributions are virtually contemporary with the colonization of North America and shapes the themes and genres of American literature for the next three hundred years: from the slave narrative to local color fiction, from the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights movement to contemporary writers.

This course highlights the contributions of African-American writers to the literary traditions of the United States. Those contributions are virtually contemporary with the colonization of North America and shapes the themes and genres of American literature for the next three hundred years: from the slave narrative to local color fiction, from the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights movement to contemporary writers.

This special topics course investigates the ways culture shapes and is shaped by technology.  It explores the reception, theory, and representation of technology and treats, but is not limited to, questions of poetics, aesthetics, history, politics and the environment.  Specific topics change each semester. This course may be repeated with permission.

This special topics course investigates the ways culture shapes and is shaped by technology.  It explores the reception, theory, and representation of technology and treats, but is not limited to, questions of poetics, aesthetics, history, politics and the environment.  Specific topics change each semester. This course may be repeated with permission.

This course explores the literary tradition of women writers, reading a variety of texts and genres across a range of history and cultural backgrounds, primarily British and American, considering such issues as the relationship between gender and culture and the impacts of race, class, and sexuality on literary achievement.

This course explores the literary tradition of women writers, reading a variety of texts and genres across a range of history and cultural backgrounds, primarily British and American, considering such issues as the relationship between gender and culture and the impacts of race, class, and sexuality on literary achievement.

This course introduces the student writer to the world of contemporary editing and publishing, print and digital, with an emphasis on an understanding of these as they affect both the creative writer and the writer of nonfiction.

This course introduces the student writer to the world of contemporary editing and publishing, print and digital, with an emphasis on an understanding of these as they affect both the creative writer and the writer of nonfiction.

In this course students work on the editing and publication of the New Orleans Review, a nationally-distributed literary journal published at Loyola since 1968. Students work with the editorial staff to produce an issue of the print journal and to maintain the journal’s website.

In this course students work on the editing and publication of the New Orleans Review, a nationally-distributed literary journal published at Loyola since 1968. Students work with the editorial staff to produce an issue of the print journal and to maintain the journal’s website.

This class addresses the ways in which the task of composition changes in digital and online contexts. It is divided equally between tutorials on digital composition best practices and historical and theoretical perspectives on writing and technology. The course requires substantial computer work, but no prior experience is necessary.

This class addresses the ways in which the task of composition changes in digital and online contexts. It is divided equally between tutorials on digital composition best practices and historical and theoretical perspectives on writing and technology. The course requires substantial computer work, but no prior experience is necessary.

This course examines significant trends in contemporary theories of rhetoric and the writing process with special emphasis on how these theories relate to the teaching of composition at all levels.

This course examines significant trends in contemporary theories of rhetoric and the writing process with special emphasis on how these theories relate to the teaching of composition at all levels.

The course examines the impact of contemporary feminist thought on rhetorical theory and introduces students to writing practices resulting from that impact. Readings from leading feminist theorists, critics, and literary authors provide a foundation for nonfiction writing assignments that combine personal experience with critical theory and encourage experimentation with voice and form.

The course examines the impact of contemporary feminist thought on rhetorical theory and introduces students to writing practices resulting from that impact. Readings from leading feminist theorists, critics, and literary authors provide a foundation for nonfiction writing assignments that combine personal experience with critical theory and encourage experimentation with voice and form.

This course is a workshop examining the writing of plays as well as aspects of writing film scripts. In addition to writing dramatic exercises and plays, students read extensively and analyze examples of plays and films.

This course is a workshop examining the writing of plays as well as aspects of writing film scripts. In addition to writing dramatic exercises and plays, students read extensively and analyze examples of plays and films.

From magic and mistaken identity to revenge and jealousy, English Renaissance playwrights created a vibrant theatrical world that defined an age. This course explores non-Shakespearean drama spanning from the 1550s, before the first public theaters were built, through the tense moments before Parliament closed them in 1642. We consider how dramatists engaged the conventions of classical drama and used their craft to confront changing attitudes about religion, politics, gender, and economy.

From magic and mistaken identity to revenge and jealousy, English Renaissance playwrights created a vibrant theatrical world that defined an age. This course explores non-Shakespearean drama spanning from the 1550s, before the first public theaters were built, through the tense moments before Parliament closed them in 1642. We consider how dramatists engaged the conventions of classical drama and used their craft to confront changing attitudes about religion, politics, gender, and economy.

This seminar explores the development of a specific theme or genre in a transnational early modern context. Topics include Renaissance Women Writers, Renaissance Epic, The Literature of Empire, or Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Literature. Primary texts are drawn from both English and continental literatures, while secondary readings include current critical and theoretical approaches, making this course excellent preparation for graduate study in literary and cultural fields. This course may be repeated with permission.

This seminar explores the development of a specific theme or genre in a transnational early modern context. Topics include Renaissance Women Writers, Renaissance Epic, The Literature of Empire, or Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Literature. Primary texts are drawn from both English and continental literatures, while secondary readings include current critical and theoretical approaches, making this course excellent preparation for graduate study in literary and cultural fields. This course may be repeated with permission.

This course surveys Roman-style comedies, Latin liturgical drama and Anglo-Norman religious plays in medieval England before turning to Middle English biblical, morality and saints' plays. Dramatic texts are supplemented by non-dramatic literature. Music, theological writing, and visual materials are considered with some emphasis placed on stagecraft.

This course surveys Roman-style comedies, Latin liturgical drama and Anglo-Norman religious plays in medieval England before turning to Middle English biblical, morality and saints' plays. Dramatic texts are supplemented by non-dramatic literature. Music, theological writing, and visual materials are considered with some emphasis placed on stagecraft.

This course is a survey of the major poets and prose writers of the Restoration and the 18th century with an emphasis on Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Boswell.

This course is a survey of the major poets and prose writers of the Restoration and the 18th century with an emphasis on Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, and Boswell.

This course is a study of the development of the novel in England through the French Revolution, with readings from Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne.

This course is a study of the development of the novel in England through the French Revolution, with readings from Defoe, Swift, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne.

This course in British Romanticism is fundamentally about revolution. It begins with the historical context of revolution in France, America, and industrial production, and examines shifting conceptions of society and the self in the aftermath of those revolutions. It focuses on revolutions in poetry and the novel in texts by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Byron, Keats, the Shelleys, and more.

This course in British Romanticism is fundamentally about revolution. It begins with the historical context of revolution in France, America, and industrial production, and examines shifting conceptions of society and the self in the aftermath of those revolutions. It focuses on revolutions in poetry and the novel in texts by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Austen, Byron, Keats, the Shelleys, and more.

This course examines Victorian England, which saw major changes in structures of class, ethnicity and gender, an expanding empire, and a revolution in how things were made and who made them. The course looks at innovations in narrative and poetic form at the intersection of what Victorians called “Life and Art,” in essays by Arnold, Pater, and Wilde; poetry by Tennyson, the Brownings, the Brontës, the Rossettis, Hopkins, and Hardy; and fiction by Dickens, George Eliot, and Thackeray, and more.

This course examines Victorian England, which saw major changes in structures of class, ethnicity and gender, an expanding empire, and a revolution in how things were made and who made them. The course looks at innovations in narrative and poetic form at the intersection of what Victorians called “Life and Art,” in essays by Arnold, Pater, and Wilde; poetry by Tennyson, the Brownings, the Brontës, the Rossettis, Hopkins, and Hardy; and fiction by Dickens, George Eliot, and Thackeray, and more.

This course is a continuation of A426, examining the development of the novel in the 19th century with study of the works of Austen, the Brontës, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, among others.

This course is a continuation of A426, examining the development of the novel in the 19th century with study of the works of Austen, the Brontës, Thackeray, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, among others.

This course is a continuation of A426 and A429, examining the fiction of writers such as Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf with some attention given to contemporary fiction.

This course is a continuation of A426 and A429, examining the fiction of writers such as Conrad, Ford, Forster, Joyce, Lawrence, and Woolf with some attention given to contemporary fiction.

This course is concerned with selected physiological phenomena occurring in biological cells, such as action potential in neurons. Although these are fundamentally biological phenomena, the analysis is inherently multidisciplinary, involving both physical and chemical principles. The course also introduces students to basic mathematical modeling of biophysical phenomena.

This course is concerned with selected physiological phenomena occurring in biological cells, such as action potential in neurons. Although these are fundamentally biological phenomena, the analysis is inherently multidisciplinary, involving both physical and chemical principles. The course also introduces students to basic mathematical modeling of biophysical phenomena.

This course examines the literature of perhaps the most distinctive region of the United States: the American South. From its colonial roots, through slavery and secession and civil war and reconstruction, from its twentieth-century renascence to its presumed disappearance into the homogeneity of twenty-first century America, this literary tradition offers a peculiarly rich perspective on our national identity.

This course examines the literature of perhaps the most distinctive region of the United States: the American South. From its colonial roots, through slavery and secession and civil war and reconstruction, from its twentieth-century renascence to its presumed disappearance into the homogeneity of twenty-first century America, this literary tradition offers a peculiarly rich perspective on our national identity.

This course is a comparative media investigation of a variety of topics under the heading of posthumanism. Focusing on a selection of novels, film, and video games concerned with technological and/or biological augmentations, we will explore such questions as what does it mean to be human or is "human" even a meaningful category, what is the relationship between science and nurture, and what is the work of the humanities in a posthuman condition.

This course is a comparative media investigation of a variety of topics under the heading of posthumanism. Focusing on a selection of novels, film, and video games concerned with technological and/or biological augmentations, we will explore such questions as what does it mean to be human or is "human" even a meaningful category, what is the relationship between science and nurture, and what is the work of the humanities in a posthuman condition.

This course explores the contributions of women writers to the distinctiveness of the South, the range of their achievement as artists, and the complex relationships they developed with each other and to the structures of their singularly traditional culture.

This course explores the contributions of women writers to the distinctiveness of the South, the range of their achievement as artists, and the complex relationships they developed with each other and to the structures of their singularly traditional culture.

This course provides students with an understanding of how a work of literature is translated into a film. The core material for the course varies from semester to semester, but is comprised of fiction that has successfully been adapted to the screen, especially short stories, novels, and theatrical plays. The course also deals with films created from classic drama, including Shakespeare, as well as folklore and historical records.

This course provides students with an understanding of how a work of literature is translated into a film. The core material for the course varies from semester to semester, but is comprised of fiction that has successfully been adapted to the screen, especially short stories, novels, and theatrical plays. The course also deals with films created from classic drama, including Shakespeare, as well as folklore and historical records.

This is a special topics course exploring European cinemas, including Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, in relation to the individual cultures from which they arise. Aesthetic and sociocultural differences between these national cinemas and Hollywood are stressed. The specific topic changes each term. This course may be repeated with permission.

This is a special topics course exploring European cinemas, including Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, in relation to the individual cultures from which they arise. Aesthetic and sociocultural differences between these national cinemas and Hollywood are stressed. The specific topic changes each term. This course may be repeated with permission.

This seminar explores the development of a specific theme or genre in contemporary global literature and/or cinema. Topics vary by semester, but might include Magical Realism, the African Novel, or Global Human Rights Literature.  Primary texts are drawn from African, Asian, Caribbean, and/or Latin American traditions. Students gain facility with theoretical trends that challenge traditional critical perspectives and foreground those that emerge from the global South. This course may be repeated with permission.

This seminar explores the development of a specific theme or genre in contemporary global literature and/or cinema. Topics vary by semester, but might include Magical Realism, the African Novel, or Global Human Rights Literature.  Primary texts are drawn from African, Asian, Caribbean, and/or Latin American traditions. Students gain facility with theoretical trends that challenge traditional critical perspectives and foreground those that emerge from the global South. This course may be repeated with permission.

This course is an intensive study of one or two great medieval literary figures. The course traces the development of the author’s art, noting influences, historical and philosophical contexts, critical receptions, and modern assessments. This course may be repeated with permission.

This course is an intensive study of one or two great medieval literary figures. The course traces the development of the author’s art, noting influences, historical and philosophical contexts, critical receptions, and modern assessments. This course may be repeated with permission.

This special topics course is an intensive study of one or two great literary figures from the 19th century. The course traces the development of the author’s art, noting influences, historical and philosophical contexts, critical receptions, and modern assessments. This course may be repeated with permission.

This special topics course is an intensive study of one or two great literary figures from the 19th century. The course traces the development of the author’s art, noting influences, historical and philosophical contexts, critical receptions, and modern assessments. This course may be repeated with permission.

This course offers an intensive study of one or two great American literary figures of the pre-1900s. The course traces the development of the author’s art, noting influences, historical and philosophical contexts, critical receptions, and modern assessments. Authors may include, Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Emerson, and Henry James.This course may be repeated with permission.

This course offers an intensive study of one or two great American literary figures of the pre-1900s. The course traces the development of the author’s art, noting influences, historical and philosophical contexts, critical receptions, and modern assessments. Authors may include, Melville, Hawthorne, Thoreau and Emerson, and Henry James.This course may be repeated with permission.

This course looks at influential developments in literary theory and cultural criticism across the twentieth century and up to the present.

This course looks at influential developments in literary theory and cultural criticism across the twentieth century and up to the present.

This is a special topics course focusing on different contemporary issues in literary criticism, such as environmental theory, new media, food studies, and post-humanism.

This is a special topics course focusing on different contemporary issues in literary criticism, such as environmental theory, new media, food studies, and post-humanism.

This special topics seminar is an intensive study of one or two influential literary figures. It traces the development of the author’s art, noting influences, historical and philosophical contexts, critical receptions, and contemporary assessments. This course may be repeated with permission.

This special topics seminar is an intensive study of one or two influential literary figures. It traces the development of the author’s art, noting influences, historical and philosophical contexts, critical receptions, and contemporary assessments. This course may be repeated with permission.

This practicum focuses on methods and materials for teaching writing. Students work in the Writing across the Curriculum lab.

This practicum focuses on methods and materials for teaching writing. Students work in the Writing across the Curriculum lab.

This course is an introduction to economic analysis: efficiency and equity; production and exchange; costs, supply, and demand; markets, organizations, and government; competition, cooperation, and coercion; and international trade.

This course is an introduction to economic analysis: efficiency and equity; production and exchange; costs, supply, and demand; markets, organizations, and government; competition, cooperation, and coercion; and international trade.

This course is an introduction to the statistics used in business. Topics covered are sources and collection of business data, describing data, probability concepts, the use of confidence limits to estimate the mean or the proportion, the use of hypothesis tests, analysis of variance, and simple correlation and linear regression to discover how two variables are related to each other. The use of Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software is an integral part of this hands-on course.

This course is an introduction to the statistics used in business. Topics covered are sources and collection of business data, describing data, probability concepts, the use of confidence limits to estimate the mean or the proportion, the use of hypothesis tests, analysis of variance, and simple correlation and linear regression to discover how two variables are related to each other. The use of Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software is an integral part of this hands-on course.

This course discusses basic legal principles of engaging in business transactions subject to the law of foreign jurisdictions, and processes available and rules that apply to the solutions of international business problems.

This course discusses basic legal principles of engaging in business transactions subject to the law of foreign jurisdictions, and processes available and rules that apply to the solutions of international business problems.

This course discusses basic legal principles of engaging in business transactions subject to the law of foreign jurisdictions, and processes available and rules that apply to the solutions of international business problems.

This course discusses basic legal principles of engaging in business transactions subject to the law of foreign jurisdictions, and processes available and rules that apply to the solutions of international business problems.

This course designation is applied to topical electives in Legal Studies offered on an irregular basis.

This course designation is applied to topical electives in Legal Studies offered on an irregular basis.

See description in College of Business overview

See description in College of Business overview

This course will teach jazz dance from a historical perspective. Contemporary jazz styles and Fosse repertory will result in jazz dance class performance during the semester.

This course will teach jazz dance from a historical perspective. Contemporary jazz styles and Fosse repertory will result in jazz dance class performance during the semester.

This course will teach jazz dance from a historical perspective. Contemporary jazz styles and Fosse repertory will result in jazz dance class performance during the semester.

This course addresses the art, the structure, and the method of songwriting, including lyric writing, construction of melody, and form. It includes all genres and styles

This course addresses the art, the structure, and the method of songwriting, including lyric writing, construction of melody, and form. It includes all genres and styles

This course addresses the art, the structure, and the method of songwriting, including lyric writing, construction of melody, and form. It includes all genres and styles

This course provides students with an overview of film and TV scoring, focusing on both composition and music supervision. The following topics will be addressed: a film’s “music team” (director, producer, music supervisor, film editor, composer) and the respective roles of each will be discussed; the general functions of music in film and TV; budgeting for music; “temp scores; music licensing (master and sync), spotting a film; general vocabulary of the industry; the “tools” used by composers. Students will work with each other in creative teams to “score” scenes from projects

This course provides students with an overview of film and TV scoring, focusing on both composition and music supervision. The following topics will be addressed: a film’s “music team” (director, producer, music supervisor, film editor, composer) and the respective roles of each will be discussed; the general functions of music in film and TV; budgeting for music; “temp scores; music licensing (master and sync), spotting a film; general vocabulary of the industry; the “tools” used by composers. Students will work with each other in creative teams to “score” scenes from projects

This course provides students with an overview of film and TV scoring, focusing on both composition and music supervision. The following topics will be addressed: a film’s “music team” (director, producer, music supervisor, film editor, composer) and the respective roles of each will be discussed; the general functions of music in film and TV; budgeting for music; “temp scores; music licensing (master and sync), spotting a film; general vocabulary of the industry; the “tools” used by composers. Students will work with each other in creative teams to “score” scenes from projects

This course provides students with an overview of film and TV scoring, focusing on both composition and music supervision. The following topics will be addressed: a film’s “music team” (director, producer, music supervisor, film editor, composer) and the respective roles of each will be discussed; the general functions of music in film and TV; budgeting for music; “temp scores; music licensing (master and sync), spotting a film; general vocabulary of the industry; the “tools” used by composers. Students will work with each other in creative teams to “score” scenes from projects.

This course has a lab fee associated with it for the purpose of supporting supplies specifically needed for the functioning of this particular course. Please check LORA for the amount of the lab fee.

This course provides students with an overview of film and TV scoring, focusing on both composition and music supervision. The following topics will be addressed: a film’s “music team” (director, producer, music supervisor, film editor, composer) and the respective roles of each will be discussed; the general functions of music in film and TV; budgeting for music; “temp scores; music licensing (master and sync), spotting a film; general vocabulary of the industry; the “tools” used by composers. Students will work with each other in creative teams to “score” scenes from projects.

This course has a lab fee associated with it for the purpose of supporting supplies specifically needed for the functioning of this particular course. Please check LORA for the amount of the lab fee.

The Senior Colloquium is designed to guide the senior through their senior year.  This course will give guidance in career planning to assist the graduating senior.  As part of career development the Department requires a comprehensive Senior Project Thesis prior to graduation. The course is the planning stage for a comprehensive Senior Project Thesis which is then present the following term.

The Senior Colloquium is designed to guide the senior through their senior year.  This course will give guidance in career planning to assist the graduating senior.  As part of career development the Department requires a comprehensive Senior Project Thesis prior to graduation. The course is the planning stage for a comprehensive Senior Project Thesis which is then present the following term.

The Senior Colloquium is designed to guide the senior through their senior year.  This course will give guidance in career planning to assist the graduating senior.  As part of career development the Department requires a comprehensive Senior Project Thesis prior to graduation. The course is the planning stage for a comprehensive Senior Project Thesis which is then present the following term.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills while exploring autobiography in a broad context, looking at a wide range of approaches to the construction and presentation of the self in literature, in different literary forms and cultural traditions. Students begin by reading carefully and making observations about the way in which the self, and the text itself, are constructed, and arrive through critical thinking and writing at interpretations of these observations about the texts.
 

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills while exploring autobiography in a broad context, looking at a wide range of approaches to the construction and presentation of the self in literature, in different literary forms and cultural traditions. Students begin by reading carefully and making observations about the way in which the self, and the text itself, are constructed, and arrive through critical thinking and writing at interpretations of these observations about the texts.
 

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Value Courses: Writing About Literature

This course is a survey in English of Greek and Latin Epics, such as the works of Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius of Rhodes, Quintus of Smyrna, Vergil, Lucan, and Statius. Excerpts from authors, both ancient and modern, and important works that discuss the nature and the role of epic poetry within society will also be included.

Knowledge-Value Courses: Writing About Literature

This course is a survey in English of Greek and Latin Epics, such as the works of Homer, Hesiod, Apollonius of Rhodes, Quintus of Smyrna, Vergil, Lucan, and Statius. Excerpts from authors, both ancient and modern, and important works that discuss the nature and the role of epic poetry within society will also be included.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course offers readings, discussions and textual analysis of selected works, including narrative, drama and poetry by a variety of Latin American authors.  As a writing intensive course, students will learn how to read, think and write critically about literature while exploring the historical and cultural realities of Latin American worlds.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course offers readings, discussions and textual analysis of selected works, including narrative, drama and poetry by a variety of Latin American authors.  As a writing intensive course, students will learn how to read, think and write critically about literature while exploring the historical and cultural realities of Latin American worlds.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. Reading literary representations of “the barbaric,” from its classical origins as a linguistic category to contemporary representations in the discourse of terrorism, we trace the representation of the “barbarous” other alongside the “civilized” self. Students learn to fashion their own ideas about what they read and to argue those ideas persuasively in writing.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. Reading literary representations of “the barbaric,” from its classical origins as a linguistic category to contemporary representations in the discourse of terrorism, we trace the representation of the “barbarous” other alongside the “civilized” self. Students learn to fashion their own ideas about what they read and to argue those ideas persuasively in writing.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Value Courses: Writing About Literature

Justice is the foundation of civilized society. It is at once the condition and means of concord and harmony among people. Greek poets and philosophers were among the first to investigate the nature of justice. Examination of their writings on this subject can alert students to its importance and to its nature.

Knowledge-Value Courses: Writing About Literature

Justice is the foundation of civilized society. It is at once the condition and means of concord and harmony among people. Greek poets and philosophers were among the first to investigate the nature of justice. Examination of their writings on this subject can alert students to its importance and to its nature.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills by reading and analyzing cyberpunk and apocalyptic literature. The course examines how images of the future evoked in this literature can help us face the cultural, political, and environmental problems of today.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills by reading and analyzing cyberpunk and apocalyptic literature. The course examines how images of the future evoked in this literature can help us face the cultural, political, and environmental problems of today.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course focuses on the relationship between video games and literature. Though some have suggested video games supposedly threaten the long-term future of reading good literature, the two have much more in common than one would first expect. Students in this course will encounter games that aspire to be literature and literature that aspires to be game-like as well as games about writing fiction and fiction about playing games, as they explore how these different narrative media conceive of each other.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course focuses on the relationship between video games and literature. Though some have suggested video games supposedly threaten the long-term future of reading good literature, the two have much more in common than one would first expect. Students in this course will encounter games that aspire to be literature and literature that aspires to be game-like as well as games about writing fiction and fiction about playing games, as they explore how these different narrative media conceive of each other.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. The course involves literary texts drawn from the genres of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and film. Students read works in English or translated into English from the original language in order to gain a broad understanding of literary devices and to develop the practice and learn the terminology of literary analysis. Form and Adaptation requires that students demonstrate their understanding of the material through the composition of papers and participation in class discussion.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. The course involves literary texts drawn from the genres of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and film. Students read works in English or translated into English from the original language in order to gain a broad understanding of literary devices and to develop the practice and learn the terminology of literary analysis. Form and Adaptation requires that students demonstrate their understanding of the material through the composition of papers and participation in class discussion.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills paying particular attention to genre. Beginning with a brief survey of the traditional genres of short stories, poetry, and the novel, the course then considers nontraditional cross-genre texts that have emerged in the postmodern literary world. These hybrid texts challenge the way students read, encourage a deeper appreciation of non-traditional writing, provide tools for analyzing a broad range of literary texts, and raise the following question: Why do some contemporary writers gravitate toward hybridity in genre, and how might their choices reflect other changes in our postmodern society?

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills paying particular attention to genre. Beginning with a brief survey of the traditional genres of short stories, poetry, and the novel, the course then considers nontraditional cross-genre texts that have emerged in the postmodern literary world. These hybrid texts challenge the way students read, encourage a deeper appreciation of non-traditional writing, provide tools for analyzing a broad range of literary texts, and raise the following question: Why do some contemporary writers gravitate toward hybridity in genre, and how might their choices reflect other changes in our postmodern society?

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. This course takes as its starting point the contradictions that ground our experiences of globalization and explores how the globalization of economic, political, and cultural systems produces at the same time a euphoric sense of freedom and unbounded possibility and a fear of dislocation and loss.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. This course takes as its starting point the contradictions that ground our experiences of globalization and explores how the globalization of economic, political, and cultural systems produces at the same time a euphoric sense of freedom and unbounded possibility and a fear of dislocation and loss.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills to examine written and visual representations of WWI, WWII, and the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan to gain an understanding of how politics, social values, and the culture in which films and texts are produced shape the retelling of the war experience. The course explores combat trauma, shifting definitions of courage, the process of defining the enemy, heroism, gender identity, the language of war, the experience of soldiers returning from war and the importance of narrative and community in healing trauma.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills to examine written and visual representations of WWI, WWII, and the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan to gain an understanding of how politics, social values, and the culture in which films and texts are produced shape the retelling of the war experience. The course explores combat trauma, shifting definitions of courage, the process of defining the enemy, heroism, gender identity, the language of war, the experience of soldiers returning from war and the importance of narrative and community in healing trauma.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. The goal of this class is to examine literature with a critical eye and apply what we learn to our own lives by examining literary conventions, especially the idea of the "other," and how these conventions developed over time. Students discuss the importance of placing stories into a broader context, compare how a character or author operates within his or her context, and apply this knowledge to our own cultural, historical and political context.  Students learn why the study of literature is crucial in developing critical thinking skills and why these skills are important in creating our own "stories."                  

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. The goal of this class is to examine literature with a critical eye and apply what we learn to our own lives by examining literary conventions, especially the idea of the "other," and how these conventions developed over time. Students discuss the importance of placing stories into a broader context, compare how a character or author operates within his or her context, and apply this knowledge to our own cultural, historical and political context.  Students learn why the study of literature is crucial in developing critical thinking skills and why these skills are important in creating our own "stories."                  

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills, and looks at texts that align with two major trends in contemporary literary study: postcolonial and ethnic American literature. Discussion of the major issues related to each of these fields of study and how literature responds to social and political contexts is the central focus of this course.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills, and looks at texts that align with two major trends in contemporary literary study: postcolonial and ethnic American literature. Discussion of the major issues related to each of these fields of study and how literature responds to social and political contexts is the central focus of this course.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills and focuses on reading literary texts, on examining literary conventions, and on writing analytically about literature.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills and focuses on reading literary texts, on examining literary conventions, and on writing analytically about literature.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. The guiding theme of this course is food: how we talk about and represent it, how it influences culture and shapes our individual and collective identities, and how it reflects and affects the physical, psychological, and ecological health of our nation and globe.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. The guiding theme of this course is food: how we talk about and represent it, how it influences culture and shapes our individual and collective identities, and how it reflects and affects the physical, psychological, and ecological health of our nation and globe.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. The course explores how Americans of different times and places have considered work in the sense of remunerative employment. In modern literature, city settings have often been the scene of critiques of the modes of labor (types of jobs) and the focus of how people have felt about them in industrial capitalist societies.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. The course explores how Americans of different times and places have considered work in the sense of remunerative employment. In modern literature, city settings have often been the scene of critiques of the modes of labor (types of jobs) and the focus of how people have felt about them in industrial capitalist societies.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. The course examines, through analysis of several different genres, three disasters/cataclysms of the early twenty-first century in order to understand how events in the world influence the writing and the reading of literature. The course covers The bombings of the World Trade Center in New York, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a projected nuclear catastrophe.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course uses critical reading as a foundation for developing critical thinking and writing skills. The course examines, through analysis of several different genres, three disasters/cataclysms of the early twenty-first century in order to understand how events in the world influence the writing and the reading of literature. The course covers The bombings of the World Trade Center in New York, Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a projected nuclear catastrophe.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course examines several political and cultural movements of the sixties through the literature that grew out of and defined each one.  Students analyze fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, letters, and memoirs to understand the impact of the decade. 

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course examines several political and cultural movements of the sixties through the literature that grew out of and defined each one.  Students analyze fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, letters, and memoirs to understand the impact of the decade. 

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This section of Writing About Literature is designed to develop critical reading and writing skills through a cross-genre study of poetry, fiction, and film.  Gothic literature is a reaction to mainstream culture.  By understanding this reactionary literature, students gain a better understanding of American history and culture.  

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This section of Writing About Literature is designed to develop critical reading and writing skills through a cross-genre study of poetry, fiction, and film.  Gothic literature is a reaction to mainstream culture.  By understanding this reactionary literature, students gain a better understanding of American history and culture.  

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This section of Writing About Literature examines Southern literature about adolescence. By reading poetry, novels, plays, essay, and film, we learn what it means to grow up in the South and how class, race, gender, violence and sexuality shape coming of age.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This section of Writing About Literature examines Southern literature about adolescence. By reading poetry, novels, plays, essay, and film, we learn what it means to grow up in the South and how class, race, gender, violence and sexuality shape coming of age.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course offers readings, discussion and textual analysis of selected works, including novels, short stories, drama, poetry and film by Central American authors during periods of revolution.  In this writing intensive course, students learn how to read, think and write critically about literature while exploring the historical and cultural realities of Central America revolutions.  The study of literature adds nuance to the sociological and historical “facts” of these events rather than seeing these revolutionary movements as monolithic. Students learn how to write about these nuances in meaningful ways.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course offers readings, discussion and textual analysis of selected works, including novels, short stories, drama, poetry and film by Central American authors during periods of revolution.  In this writing intensive course, students learn how to read, think and write critically about literature while exploring the historical and cultural realities of Central America revolutions.  The study of literature adds nuance to the sociological and historical “facts” of these events rather than seeing these revolutionary movements as monolithic. Students learn how to write about these nuances in meaningful ways.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This Writing about Literature course focuses on literature about New Orleans. We will read fiction, drama, and verse set in the city, from the early 19th century to the present. Writing assignments will ask students to compare the works of imaginative literature to each other, to the historical record, and to theories regarding New Orleanian society and aesthetics.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This Writing about Literature course focuses on literature about New Orleans. We will read fiction, drama, and verse set in the city, from the early 19th century to the present. Writing assignments will ask students to compare the works of imaginative literature to each other, to the historical record, and to theories regarding New Orleanian society and aesthetics.

This course replaces ENGL T125

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course handles novels, short stories, drama, poetry, essays, and films by authors situated either geographically or culturally in a borderland between the US and Latin American countries.  In this writing-intensive course, students learn to read, think and write critically about literature while exploring the historical and cultural realities of Chican & Latin peoples in the borderlands of the US from the 19th to the present day.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Writing About Literature

This course handles novels, short stories, drama, poetry, essays, and films by authors situated either geographically or culturally in a borderland between the US and Latin American countries.  In this writing-intensive course, students learn to read, think and write critically about literature while exploring the historical and cultural realities of Chican & Latin peoples in the borderlands of the US from the 19th to the present day.

Knowledge-Value Courses: Writing About Literature

This course is an introduction to lyric and elegiac forms of individual poetic expression. Consideration will be given to the technical terms referring to the poems studied, their themes, and performance. Authors include Archilochus, Tyrtaeus, Alcaeus, and Sappho, among others, along related primary and secondary sources.

Knowledge-Value Courses: Writing About Literature

This course is an introduction to lyric and elegiac forms of individual poetic expression. Consideration will be given to the technical terms referring to the poems studied, their themes, and performance. Authors include Archilochus, Tyrtaeus, Alcaeus, and Sappho, among others, along related primary and secondary sources.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts and Cultures

This course examines narratives that attempt to make sense of the problem of disease. Readings and films focus on physical traumas such as cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, amputation, and paralysis as a way of exploring larger themes such as radical body transformation, the sense of the loss of self, and empathy. Is disease salvific? Is it meaningless? The texts explore an array of emotional and ideological responses to human frailty.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts and Cultures

This course examines narratives that attempt to make sense of the problem of disease. Readings and films focus on physical traumas such as cancer, Alzheimer's Disease, amputation, and paralysis as a way of exploring larger themes such as radical body transformation, the sense of the loss of self, and empathy. Is disease salvific? Is it meaningless? The texts explore an array of emotional and ideological responses to human frailty.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts & Cultures

Anime encompasses history, literature, culture, politics, religion, technology, and aesthetics. this course focuses on anime from Anime that sparked American interest and analyzes the impact of anime on American popular culture and high art.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts & Cultures

Anime encompasses history, literature, culture, politics, religion, technology, and aesthetics. this course focuses on anime from Anime that sparked American interest and analyzes the impact of anime on American popular culture and high art.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts & Cultures

Ireland Through Film introduces students to the world of Irish film. The course is designed to provide students with a way to see the relationship between Irish film and the creation of an Irish political and cultural identity. The class looks at images of the Irish from the stock Irishman to more complex contemporary versions of the Irish. Ireland Through Film will help students understand the historical, political, cultural, and religious conflicts that have made modern Ireland.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts & Cultures

Ireland Through Film introduces students to the world of Irish film. The course is designed to provide students with a way to see the relationship between Irish film and the creation of an Irish political and cultural identity. The class looks at images of the Irish from the stock Irishman to more complex contemporary versions of the Irish. Ireland Through Film will help students understand the historical, political, cultural, and religious conflicts that have made modern Ireland.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts & Cultures

New Orleans is one of the United States' most mythologized places. Its long history of representation in the national culture affects the way locals, visitors, and distant onlookers perceive the city today. New Orleans as Myth and Performance will look at the ways in which New Orleans functions as a myth in the national culture, and the ways in which New Orleanian identity is performed in multiple genres, including the mass public spectacle of carnival.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts & Cultures

New Orleans is one of the United States' most mythologized places. Its long history of representation in the national culture affects the way locals, visitors, and distant onlookers perceive the city today. New Orleans as Myth and Performance will look at the ways in which New Orleans functions as a myth in the national culture, and the ways in which New Orleanian identity is performed in multiple genres, including the mass public spectacle of carnival.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts and Cultures

This course traces the role of place in the literary traditions of North America, questioning the continuity and significance of regionalism as a defining element of our cultural and literary heritage--and of our future in increasingly global and diverse contexts.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts and Cultures

This course traces the role of place in the literary traditions of North America, questioning the continuity and significance of regionalism as a defining element of our cultural and literary heritage--and of our future in increasingly global and diverse contexts.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts and Cultures

This course introduces the literature, history, and culture of medieval Scandinavia. It opens with readings in Norse mythography and legendary history before turning to the portrayal of the Viking Age in the Old Norse sagas. Half of the semester is devoted to a careful reading of these complex narratives of politics, love, adventure, and violence, which comprise Europe’s first great corpus of prose literature.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts and Cultures

This course introduces the literature, history, and culture of medieval Scandinavia. It opens with readings in Norse mythography and legendary history before turning to the portrayal of the Viking Age in the Old Norse sagas. Half of the semester is devoted to a careful reading of these complex narratives of politics, love, adventure, and violence, which comprise Europe’s first great corpus of prose literature.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts and Cultures

This course introduces students to the Arthurian tradition through a study of the origins and development of the Arthurian narrative, situating it within the historical, religious, and social context of Medieval Europe. The course begins with a survey of both the development and influence of Arthurian themes in early musical, visual, and literary traditions. Then the course proceeds to present the Perceval/Grail tradition from the 12th to the 20th century in literature, music and film.

Knowledge-Values Courses: Creative Arts and Cultures

This course introduces students to the Arthurian tradition through a study of the origins and development of the Arthurian narrative, situating it within the historical, religious, and social context of Medieval Europe. The course begins with a survey of both the development and influence of Arthurian themes in early musical, visual, and literary traditions. Then the course proceeds to present the Perceval/Grail tradition from the 12th to the 20th century in literature, music and film.