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Courses Offered
LIT 374 Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature
3 hours, 3 credits
Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature may focus on a literary
genre or convention (e.g., lyric or narrative poetry, realist, romantic
or naturalistic novels) or an important theme (e.g., industrialization,
slavery, imperialism, and the romantic imagination) as a means of
understanding the literature of the period. Each semester individual
instructors will anchor the course in specific sub-topics, primary
texts, cultures, historical moments, etc., depending on their own areas
of specialization. The course will approach the canon for this period
not as a fixed entity but as a body of work consistently open to
reevaluation and critique; alternative texts, voices, and subject
positions relevant to the topic(s) will be included. Topics in
Nineteenth-Century Literature will examine select major and minor
literary movements, authors, and ideas at work in 19th-century
literature with an eye to the formal features of texts as well as the
social, historical, and political contexts in which they appear.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or 201. Prerequisite or co-requisite: LIT 260
or permission of the instructor
LIT 375 Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature
3 hours, 3 credits
Topics in Twentieth-Century Literature may focus on a literary genre or
convention (e.g., confessional poetry, non-linear narrative) or an
important theme (e.g., alienation, memory and trauma, dominant vs.
minority culture) as a means of understanding the literature of the period.
Each semester individual instructors will anchor the course in specific
sub-topics, primary texts, cultures, historical moments, etc., depending on
their own areas of specialization. The course will approach the canon for
this period not as a fixed entity but as a body of work consistently open to
reevaluation and critique; alternative texts, voices, and subject positions
relevant to the topic will be included. Topics in Twentieth-Century
Literature will examine select literary movements, authors, and ideas with
an eye to the formal features of texts as well as the social, historical, and
political contexts in which they appear.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or 201. Prerequisite or co-requisite: LIT 260
or permission of the instructor
LIT 390 Individual Reading
3 credits, 3 hours
Submission of a project of reading and research for approval by the
instructor. A paper and periodic conferences are required. Special
arrangements may be made to do this work over the summer.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or ENG 201, and junior standing or above
LIT 400 Senior Seminar in Literature
3 hours, 3 credits
The senior seminar requires students in the literature concentration to
synthesize the knowledge and critical skills they have acquired in the
major. The course offers an in-depth study of a particular topic,
author, or intellectual theme and asks students to examine the
relevant issues and debates through course readings, discussion,
and an original research project. The topic, author, or theme for the
semester will be situated in current conversations in the broader field
of literary/theoretical study.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 or 201, LIT 260, LIT 300 or LIT 305, senior
standing
LIT 401 Special Topics
3 hours, 3 credits
Specific study of a topic chosen by the instructor.
Prerequisites: Any 300-level literature course and ENG 102 or ENG
201
LIT 405 Senior Seminar in Literature and Law
3 hours, 3 credits
This capstone course in Literature and Law will focus on the
relationship between literary and legal texts and practices. The
seminar topic will be chosen by the individual professor to reflect the
interdisciplinary field of literature and law and will underscore how
literature and law are integrated disciplines. Using literary and legal
texts and approaches, the course may focus on issues raised by the
rule of law, the rules of war, the law of nations, and the illicit in
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