Introduces poetry as an art form. Explores the fundamental tools, uses, and delights of poetry.

Topics not included in other course offerings within the Historical Period: Up to 1700 category. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Study of major authors writing up to the year 1700, but not included in other course offerings. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Various topics in American literature from early English settlement to the American Revolution, with a focus on texts from and about New England and Virginia in the seventeenth century.

Topics not included in other course offerings within the Historical Period: 1700-1900 category. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Studies of major authors writing between the years 1700-1900, but not included in other course offerings. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Survey of transatlantic literature written by BIPOC, as well as their allies, across the eighteenth and/or nineteenth centuries. Includes examination of topics related to slavery and the abolition movement. Additional discussion of topics including but not limited to religion, medicine, class, cultural identity, and social justice.

Examination of literature from across national traditions between 1770 and 1865. Literary texts grounded primarily in either the British or American tradition with considerations of transnational literatures, particularly of the transatlantic world. Literary topics include but are not limited to individualism, race, gender, revolution, industrialization, nature, and empire.

Survey of literature spanning the Restoration, Enlightenment, Revolutionary, and Romantic eras, establishing discourse across the historical eras between 1660 to 1840. Includes examination of literature’s cultural and historical contexts. Thematically driven course, to be determined by the instructor. Course themes may include, but are not limited to, globalization, literary genre development, gendered representations, and religious conflict.

Advanced topics covering the novel from the eighteenth and/or nineteenth century in the American and/or British tradition. Explores a variety of authors and novel genres. May place more “traditional” literary traditions in conversation with broader global Anglophone literatures.

Investigates the notion of authorship in the context of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British authors who form author networks and writing collaborations. Examines the historical and cultural conditions of authorship in the period. Explores literary connections between texts.

Focuses on the emergence and development of autobiographical and life writing genres during the period 1700-1900 in the American and/or British tradition. Explores a variety of authors and autobiographical texts. May place more “traditional” examples in conversation with broader global Anglophone literatures.

Topics not included in other course offerings within the Historical Period: 1900-present category. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Study of major authors writing from the year 1900 to the present, but not included in other course offerings. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Investigates representations of warfare in literary works, with a historical concentration of 1900 onward.

Examines the country house in the English literary imagination, with particular emphasis on novels and poems of the twentieth century. Considers the country house as an expression of English identity. Follows its importance and decline in connection with historical events.

Study of the development of Twentieth-Century American drama, with a focus on innovations in genre and performance, including key productions and adaptations.

Literary works connected to the South written in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Topics not included in other course offerings within the Diverse Perspectives category. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Study of major authors representing diverse views and backgrounds not included in other course offerings. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Examines the work of women writers. Readings may emphasize British, American, or international writers, a genre, or a theme. Course may be repeated once for credit with a different theme.

Overview of Asian-American literature. Comparative study of writers from at least three Asian-American communities, such as Chinese, Filipino, and Korean.

Concerns Shakespeare’s role as we grapple with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, ableism, and belonging. Readings include various Shakespeare plays as well as several “companion” novels and adapted theatrical performances, many of which are written by writers of color or speak to social issues important in our world.

Study of American literature that examines and depicts the experience of immigration to the United States in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Examines the urban experience as portrayed in American literature and film from the rise of the American metropolis to the global city of the present day.

Study of the life, works, and context of James Baldwin to discover his significance to American literature and culture and his ongoing influence on American letters and discourse on race, identity, faith, and art.

Examines the social aspects of poetry. Focuses on how poems work, with special attention to craft topics like line break, comparisons, images, and sound. Uses craft knowledge to create public poetry installations for the annual Beall Poetry Festival.

Topics not included in other course offerings within the Career Exploration category. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Study of major authors not included in other course offerings related to career exploration. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Exploration of connections between the discourses of law and literature. Includes works of literature that focus on legal issues or depict courtroom scenes.

Explores literature dealing with issues of disease, illness, and disability; the individuals tasked with treating it; and the people who experience it.

Instruction in narrative techniques and basic narratology. Investigates debates about the practice and application of narratology. Focus on applying knowledge of narrative techniques to analyzing literary texts.

Topics not included in other course offerings within the Electives category. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

Study of major authors not included in other course offerings. Topic announced for each semester or session. May be repeated for a total of six credit hours with content change.

This course critically examines how literature represents connections among humans, nonhumans, and environments.

Literary works that depict the environment as provoking fear or that depict humans as afraid of damaging the environment.

Literature written about the ocean and maritime culture. Specific topics may vary by instructor.

Study of the Bible as a literary masterpiece, focusing on its authors’ ideas, feelings, and intentions; its texts’ meanings, forms, and aesthetic qualities; the texts’ contexts, composition process, and reception history.

Analyzes satirical form and texts from the classical world to the present. Promotes understanding of formal attributes of satirical works across various time periods, cultures, and genres. Explores ethical and political perspectives in satirical texts in order to assess their relevance today.

Literary texts written in the United States that employ the Gothic genre.

Development and forms of the short story.

Explores how stories change based on point of view. Investigates the re-telling of a classic literary work. Exposure to literature from one or several historical time periods. Analysis of narrative and literary techniques.