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Courses Offered
slave era, legacies of colonialism and postcolonialism, the experience
of exile, racial experience and creolization, the culture of tourism,
and definitions of “Caribbeanness.”
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and LIT 230 or LIT 231 or LIT
232 or LIT 233
LIT 346 Cultures in Conflict
3 hours, 3 credits
This course will examine the literature and film of non-western
groups that have experienced disruption in their familiar social,
political and cultural lives due to a cataclysmic historical event. The
regional content of the course will vary from semester to semester,
but it will focus on a moment of rupture which affected geographical
borders and/or international relations, and individual consciousness.
Literary and cinematic responses to these major historical shifts often
involve reconciling old and new identities, old and new national
loyalties, first and second languages, as well as eastern and western,
ancient and modern, local and global perspectives. Areas of possible
interest include South and East Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Some examples of such defining historical moments are: the
republican revolution in China, the Tiananmen Square uprising, the
Partition of India, the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, and
the DMZ in Korea — all of which provoked a literature and film of
crisis.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and LIT 230 or LIT 231 or LIT
232 or LIT 233
LIT 352 New Fiction
3 hours, 3 credits
Writers today try to make sense out of the moral, cultural, political
and social changes in the world since World War II. A study of
novels and short stories written in the past several decades by major
international authors such as Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, Mailer and
Borges.
Prerequisite: one of the following: LIT 230, LIT 231, LIT 232 or
LIT 233
LIT 360 Mythology in Literature
3 hours, 3 credits
Examination of mythological themes like the creation of the world,
the loves of gods with mortals, the descent into the underworld and
the heroic quest as they appear in such writers as Homer, Ovid,
Shakespeare, Tennyson and Yeats. Greek, Roman, Teutonic, Indian
and African myths are among those studied.
Prerequisite: one of the following: LIT 230, LIT 231, LIT 232 or
LIT 233
LIT 362 The Bible as Literature
3 hours, 3 credits
A non-doctrinal introduction to the Bible. Selected books from the
Old and New Testament approached as literary and historical
documents. Structure, characters, themes and archetypes. Modern
translation to be used.
Prerequisite: one of the following: LIT 230, LIT 231, LIT 232 or
LIT 233
LIT 370 Topics in Ancient Literature
3 hours, 3 credits
Topics in Ancient Literature gives students insight into myth,
religion, politics, culture and aesthetics of a variety of cultures in the
ancient world. Individual instructors will develop their syllabi
according to their areas of specialization, but possible subjects
include: (a) topics such as oral vs. written culture, democracy in
literature, outlaws in the ancient world; (b) themes such as fate,
heroism, love, and war; (c) genres such as tragedy, comedy, and oral
epics. Students will learn to examine the ancient world through
theoretical perspectives such as postcolonialism, feminism,
performance, and historiography, and in the process, they will
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