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Literacy Where possible, the academic term the course is generally taught has been provided. For courses where no specific term of teaching is provided, students should contact the chair of the department, the Center for Graduate Studies or their adviser for guidance.
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GRDG 691 - Literacy Practicum, Grades 3-6
3 Credit(s)
The purpose of this course is to apply theories, knowledge and activities from previous literacy courses in a school environment. Students will assess literacy needs of children, and design an appropriate intervention program based on this assessment. Students will write a journal and progress reports on the pupils they tutor in grades 3-6 levels. The practicum will include a minimum of 50 clock hours in a school-based setting. To be taken in the final semester of coursework.
Prerequisite(s): GRDG 655 and GRDG 656 .
Corequisite(s): GRDG 690 .
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GRDG 695L - Special Topics
1-6 Credit(s)
Workshops, seminars and/or institutes designed to meet special needs of teachers, or others interested in initial graduate-level study in the field. Offerings available upon announcement by the School of Education and Professional Studies. Credit earned may be applied, under advisement, as electives in Master of Science in Education/ Master of Science for Teachers degree programs.
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GRDG 696 - Literacy Practicum, Grades 5-8
3 Credit(s)
The purpose of this course is to apply theories, knowledge and activities from previous literacy courses in a school environment. Students will assess literacy needs of children, and design an intervention program based on this assessment. Students will write a journal and progress reports on the pupils they tutor in grade 5-8 levels. The practicum will include a minimum of 50 clock hours in a school-based setting. To be taken in the final semester of coursework.
Prerequisite(s): GRDG 655 and GRDG 656 .
Corequisite(s): GRDG 697 .
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GRDG 697 - Literacy Practicum, Grades 9-12
3 Credit(s)
The purpose of this course is to apply theories, knowledge and activities from previous literacy courses in a school environment. Students will assess literacy needs of children, and design an intervention program based on this assessment. Students will write a journal and progress reports on the pupils they tutor in grade 9-12 levels. The practicum will include a minimum of 50 clock hours in a school-based setting. To be taken in the final semester of coursework.
Prerequisite(s): GRDG 655 and GRDG 656 .
Corequisite(s): GRDG 696 .
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GRDG 699 - Literacy Internship
6 Credit(s)
MSEd Literacy Specialist candidates intern at a school for an entire school year under the supervision of a NYS certified reading/literacy specialist. The focus of their work is on early identification of struggling readers and implementing intervention-based programs. The internship will complete the requirement for the practicum. Students are required to complete assignments designed to demonstrate evidence of competence in developing assessment-driven interventions, communicating assessment results, continuing to pursue professional development, and orchestrating professional development programs. Permission of department chair.
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LITR 100 - Introduction to Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: FC credit.
Introduction to elements of literature through the study of its various forms: poetry, drama, and fiction. Practice in writing about literature and in techniques of close reading and critical thinking. This course cannot be taken if credit has been received for LITR 110 . Fall and Spring.
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LITR 110 - Writing About Literature
4 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: FW credit.
Introduction to elements of literature through the study of its various forms. This course differs from LITR 100 in that there is extensive attention to writing, revising, and the use of information resources. This course cannot be taken if credit has been received for LITR 100 . As warranted.
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LITR 120 - Film Foundations
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
An introductory course that looks at aspects of film history, criticism, and production. It provides an overview of the moving picture as both popular culture and serious art form, and looks at its various elements. Students will have a chance to view and critique films and to participate in a creative project related to filmmaking. Yearly.
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LITR 130 - Film and Fiction
4 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: FS credit.
Interrelationships between film and literature, particularly novels, which have been adapted for use on the screen. As warranted.
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LITR 195 - Special Topics
1-12 Credit(s)
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LITR 198 - Tutorial
1-3 Credit(s)
Independent study in speech communication, composition, literature or linguistics with faculty supervision. Plans for specific program must be approved by department chair and Dean of Arts and Sciences.
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LITR 200 - Literary Traditions
3 Credit(s)
Provides an introductory survey of some of the major works, writers, and periods of Western literary history. The course covers classical works of Mediterranean origins through literature of the present day, and may include examples from British, American, and Western European cultures. Fall and Spring.
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LITR 201 - Patterns of Literature
3 Credit(s)
Provides experience in recognizing and responding critically to one or more common narrative (or other structural) strategies, including topics, plot structures, character types, and other recurrent patterns used in literature across historical, linguistic, and geographic boundaries. Examples include (but are not restricted to): quest/hero narratives, travel narratives, lyric poems, captivity/liberation narratives, coming-of-age stories, formal comedy, formal tragedy, star-crossed lovers, “Cinderella” stories, etc. Fall and Spring.
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LITR 295 - Special Topics
1-12 Credit(s)
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LITR 298 - Tutorial
1-3 Credit(s)
Independent study in speech communication, composition, literature or linguistics with faculty supervision. Plans for specific program must be approved by department chair and Dean of Arts and Sciences.
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LITR 300 - Literary Analysis & Research
3 Credit(s)
Provides an introduction to advanced literary criticism. In addition to reviewing the basics of literary criticism (e.g., interpretation supported by close reading), the course will introduce and examine a number of different methods of reading, analyzing, and writing about literature, including feminist, Marxist, post-colonial, and new historical approaches. The course will also focus on using scholarly research to write about literature, and it will introduce students to the specialized terms that scholars us when talking about literature. Fall and Spring.
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LITR 301 - American Writers
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Studies in American literature. Authors, themes, periods and/or regions vary from semester to semester. Yearly.
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LITR 302 - British Writers
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Studies in British literature. Authors, themes, periods and/or regions vary from semester to semester. Yearly.
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LITR 303 - World Writers
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Studies in World literature. Authors, themes, periods, and/or cultures vary from semester to semester. No knowledge of a foreign language is necessary. The literature under investigation is written in or translated into English. Counts for Africana Studies. Yearly.
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LITR 304 - Literary Nonfiction
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Studies various types of nonfiction, e.g., biography, informal essay, new journalism. As warranted.
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LITR 305 - Short Story
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Studies in the short story as a literary genre. Readings from a wide variety of authors and critical perspectives. As warranted.
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LITR 306 - Drama
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Studies in the drama as a literary genre. Readings from a wide variety of authors and critical perspectives. As warranted.
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LITR 307 - Poetry
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Studies in poetry as a literary genre as defined by its forms, techniques, and devices that distinguish poetry as a genre. Readings from a wide variety of authors and critical perspectives. As warranted.
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LITR 308 - The Novel
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Examines traditional and modern novels from a variety of critical perspectives. As warranted.
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LITR 309 - Topics in Literary Genres
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Studies in literary genres other than literary nonfiction, the short story, drama, poetry or the novel. May include traditional genres such as the epic or new genres such as hypertext fiction or the graphic novel. As warranted.
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LITR 321 - Topics in Literary Sub-Genres
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Readings from any of a variety of literary sub-genres such as horror, the Gothic novel, or the historical novel. Topics vary. As warranted.
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LITR 322 - Children’s Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
History of children’s books, tracing emergence of a body of genuine literature for children. Fall and Spring.
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LITR 323 - Young Adult Literature
3 Credit(s)
Selection and study of literature appropriate for secondary English classrooms. Intensive and extensive reading of contemporary young adult literature and classic literary texts. Some attention to critical approaches used in studying texts and secondary literature curriculum. Fall and Spring.
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LITR 324 - Crime/Detective Fiction
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Interrogates crime and detective fiction in terms of type, “hard-boiled detective” fiction, “white-glove drawing room” fiction, film noir; and in terms of time period, nineteenth-century antecedents, early-twentieth-century proliferations, later 20thcentury reworkings. This course may also examine specific authors in depth, including Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, Georges Simenon, James Ellroy, and others. As warranted.
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LITR 325 - Utopian Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Examines the development of the utopia as a literary genre through a broad sampling of works that fit into the utopian tradition, including examples of positive utopias (or eutopias), negative utopias (or dystopias), and works that critically examine the viability of utopian philosophies (meta-utopias). As warranted.
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LITR 326 - Fantasy Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Examines selected works from the fantasy genre. Origins of fantasy literature in epic and romance emphasized. As warranted.
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LITR 328 - Science Fiction
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Examines science fiction as literature, examined with techniques of literary analysis. Development of valid working definitions of science fiction. As warranted.
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LITR 330 - Topics in Film
4 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Various topics relating to film history, directors, actors, genres. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 120 .
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LITR 344 - Parody
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
History of parody as a mode of literary criticism and humor. As warranted.
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LITR 346 - Satire
3 Credit(s)
A broad survey of satire as a literary technique, looking both at a wide range of examples of satirical texts as well as at critical works that discuss how satire functions. The goal of the course is to differentiate satire from other closely related literary concepts such as humor, irony, parody, invective, etc. As warranted.
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LITR 347 - Metaphor
3 Credit(s)
Surveys the rich landscape of metaphor and other types of figurative language, including simile, metonymy, synecdoche, allegory, personification, etc., as they are found in literature as well as in ordinary conversation. As warranted.
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LITR 348 - Irony
3 Credit(s)
Irony plays with contradictions between appearances and reality. We examine the many ways in which irony has been described as well as how literature has been shaped by these descriptions from the Greeks to contemporary writers. As warranted.
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LITR 351 - Nature and Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Explores the varied ways nature is represented in art and literature and the ways those representations express the cultural values of the times in which they were created. Yearly.
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LITR 352 - Nationality and Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Examines ways in which themes associated with national identity have been expressed in or otherwise have affected works of literature. This course may focus on a specific time period and/or group (e.g., nationalism in British Restoration drama) or may more generally survey the ways in which a nationalist perspective can affect both the construction and reception of literary texts. As warranted.
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LITR 353 - Social Movements and Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Surveys of literature’s rhetorical function, specifically as it examines literatures associated with social movements and activism. The course may focus on a specific time period and/or group and may overlap with other themed courses in which movements promoting racial-or-gender-equity are developed, or in which national or cultural identities are asserted. As warranted.
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LITR 354 - Psychology and Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Examines the ways literature is influenced by psychoanalytic thought or emphasizes the psychological states of characters and/or authors. As warranted.
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LITR 355 - Gender and Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Examines of the relationship between literary portrayals of women and men and their changing roles in society. Emphasis given to cultural and social aspects of gender and identity. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 100 Or LITR 110 Or LITR 200 Or LITR 201 Or LITR 300
Note: Minimum of Junior standing and One semester of College Literature required or permission of instructor
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LITR 356 - Race and Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Examines the ways in which race and issues surrounding race (e.g., how the notion of race originated and developed; how race differs from ethnicity or cultural tradition, etc.) have been expressed in or otherwise have affected works of literature. The course may focus on a specific time period and/or group (e.g., race and the Harlem Renaissance) or may more generally survey the ways in which so-called racial marking can affect both the construction and reception of literary texts. As warranted.
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LITR 358 - Class and Literature
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Examines the ways in which social class issues have been expressed in or otherwise have affected works of literature. The course may focus on a specific time period and/or group (e.g., the American Proletarian Novel of the 1930s) or may more generally survey the ways in which particular issues related to economics and/or social status can affect both the construction and reception of literary texts. As warranted.
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LITR 359 - Literary Themes
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC credit.
Development and variation of important themes in literature. Course content will vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
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LITR 371 - Classical Heritage
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC & WI credit.
The literature of Greece and Rome with consideration of how that heritage has continued in English and American literature. Attention to critical approaches and practice in writing about literature. Yearly.
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LITR 372 - Biblical Heritage
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC & WI credit.
The literature of the Bible and medieval Christendom with consideration of how that heritage has continued in English and American literature. Attention to critical approaches and practices in writing about literature. Yearly.
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LITR 373 - Mythical Heritage
3 Credit(s)
Gen Ed: AC & WI credit.
The folkloric and mythic tradition in literature, such as the legends of King Arthur, from a variety of sources, including contemporary treatments of the tradition. As warranted.
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LITR 374 - Classical Literature
3 Credit(s)
An introduction to the literature of classical Greece and Rome: a broad sample for the student otherwise unacquainted with ancient literature and culture. As warranted.
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LITR 380 - Literary Criticism
3 Credit(s)
History and methods of literary and aesthetic theory and practices from the ancient Greeks to the present. As warranted.
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LITR 395 - Special Topics
1-12 Credit(s)
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LITR 398 - Tutorial
1-3 Credit(s)
Independent study in speech communication, composition, literature or linguistics with faculty supervision. Plans for specific program must be approved by department chair and Dean of Arts and Sciences.
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LITR 405 - Greek and Roman Literature
3 Credit(s)
Explores literature written by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Topics and authors vary. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 407 - Medieval Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines the major works and authors of the period in Europe from AD 500 to the 15th century and will also focus on its culture of Christianity, Arthurian Legends, and the Crusades. Students will explore Old English poetry with works like Beowulf, Caedmon’s Hymn, and the Elegies, and will also read works by major authors such as Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 408 - Chaucer
3 Credit(s)
Reading of Chaucer’s major works, consideration of the works in their cultural setting, examinations of various critical approaches to Chaucer, discussion of his place in English literary history. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 410 - Shakespeare I: Comedies
3 Credit(s)
Examines the major plays, including attention to genre and to Shakespeare’s artistic development. Does not overlap with LITR 411 . As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 411 - Shakespeare II: History and Tragedies
3 Credit(s)
Examines the major plays, including attention to genre and to Shakespeare’s artistic development. Does not overlap with LITR 410 . As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 412 - British Renaissance Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines major works of the 16thand 17thcentury, including the period during and after Elizabeth I, the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor Dynasty. Students will read works by major authors such as Shakespeare, Marlowe, Milton, Jonson, Aphra Behn, and Anne Bradstreet via exploring major historical movements of the period such as the Renaissance, Humanism and Idealism. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 and LITR 300 .
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LITR 413 - British Enlightenment Literature
3 Credit(s)
Readings in the “long century” (1660-1780), including the so-called Age of Reason, and the origins of the British Novel. Authors or focus may vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 414 - British Romanticism
3 Credit(s)
An era of dramatic contrasts as well as unsettling social and literary change, this period saw the French and American Revolutions, Napoleon’s war with Britain, and heated debate over women’s rights, sexual mores, and the rights of slaves. Readings in a wide range of Romantic-era texts: sentimental & satirical, narrative & lyric poetry; a Romantic novel & a play; nonfiction prose including literary manifestoes, political essays & social commentary, travel journals, diaries & memoirs, literary reviews, portraits & political cartoons. Writers studied may vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 419 - Victorian Literature
3 Credit(s)
Queen Victoria reigned from 1837-1901 and gave her name to an age. The nineteenth century saw massive changes in many areas-technology, population migrations, science, religion, nationalisms, sexuality, and class-and the course will consider how literature reflected, and sometimes shaped, those changes. Authors or focus may vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 421 - British Modernism
3 Credit(s)
Examines texts produced during the height of modernism (roughly 1910 to 1940), focusing on how social, cultural, and economic factors influenced modernist authors and their texts. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 422 - Contemporary British Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines literature written from 1950 to the present. The course may be focused on the works of particular writers or groups of writers, themes, genres/sub-genres, etc., or may present a general overview of the period. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 423 - Commonwealth and Post-Colonial Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines the disparate voices of contemporary British literature: white, brown, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, working class, queer, straight, and combinations thereof as they negotiate the legacies of imperialism and colonialism. Authors and focus may vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 and LITR 300 .
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LITR 429 - Topics in British Literature
3 Credit(s)
This course is designed to engage in inquiry on a special topic, either generic, period-specific, or themed. Authors and focus will vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 and LITR 300 .
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LITR 430 - Advanced Topics in Film
4 Credit(s)
Various topics relating to film theory, aesthetics, national cinemas. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 330 .
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LITR 434 - Colonial American Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines literary and non-literary texts produced by European explorers, early American settlers, and Native Americans during the periods of cultural contact and colonization. Focusing on contact narratives, promotional tracts, religious sermons and poetry, as well as the discourses that shaped and justified colonialism, the seminar also gives special attention to what constitutes American literature as the concepts of both “American” and “literature” evolved from the age of exploration through the eighteenth century. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 and LITR 300 .
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LITR 435 - American Romanticism
3 Credit(s)
Focuses specifically on American literary romanticism throughout the 1800s. We consider the early manifestations of romanticism, the glory days of the American Renaissance, and the often cynical aftermath of romanticism as seen through realism and naturalism. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 and LITR 300 or permission of instructor.
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LITR 436 - American Realism and Naturalism
3 Credit(s)
Starts in the aftermath of the Civil War and considers the movement away from romanticism, the restraints upon character choice, the increased attention to middle class and lower class life, the development of psychological complexity in character, and the formalist techniques for representing mimesis, especially fragmentation and perspectivism. Yearly.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 437 - American Modernism
3 Credit(s)
Representative texts of early 20th century American literature. The course may be focused on the works of particular writers or groups of writers, themes, genres/sub-genres, etc., or may present a general overview of the period. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 438 - Post-War American Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines literature written between 1945 and the early 1980s. The course may be focused on the works of particular writers or groups of writers, themes, and genres/sub-genres. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 439 - Contemporary American Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines American literature written in the past forty years. The course may be focused on the works of particular writers or groups of writers, themes, and genres/sub-genres. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 445 - American Women Writers
3 Credit(s)
Examines selected American women writers. Works may be studied within historical contexts; course may also survey critical responses to literature written by women. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 446 - African American Writers
3 Credit(s)
Examines the diversity of writing by African Americans. May include slave narratives, autobiography, poetry, plays, and novels. Counts for Africana Studies. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 447 - Native American Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines and interprets the span of genres, from oral myths to contemporary novels and poetry, through which Native American literary artists have created and sustained tribal identities, responded to historical change, and explored issues of community and sovereignty. The course situates writers in their cultural contexts to emphasize the variety of peoples and voices that shape traditions of Native American literature. Counts for Native American Studies. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 448 - North Country/Adirondack Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines literature written by residents of the North Country/Adirondacks who wrote the majority of a given work there or who set a major portion of a literary work in the area. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 449 - Topics in American Literature
3 Credit(s)
Provides an in-depth analysis of a particular topic that transcends the periods into which American literary history is usually divided. The intention of the course is to isolate and survey the development of a particular theme, literary convention, social/political issue, etc., as expressed in American literary works over a substantial range of time. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 451 - World Literature: Peoples
3 Credit(s)
Examines literature from a particular ethnic, national, religious, or otherwise shared cultural tradition, irrespective of geographic boundaries. This course may be organized around a specific time period, genre, or theme. Works originally written in languages other than English will be read in translation. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 452 - World Literature: Places
3 Credit(s)
Examines literature from a particular geographic area-potentially as small as a city or as large as a continent-outside the US and Great Britain. The course may be organized around a specific time period, genre, or theme. Works originally written in languages other than English will be read in translation. COunts for Africana Studies. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 453 - World Literature: Themes
3 Credit(s)
Provides an in-depth survey of a particular theme in literary works from cultures other than those of the United States and Great Britain. The course may either focus on a specific culture, language, period, and/or region in examining its particular theme, or it may broadly survey instances of the theme across such boundaries. Works originally written in languages other than English will be read in translation. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 454 - Canadian Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines Canadian literature. Periods, genres, regions, and authors may vary from one semester to the next. Works written in French will be read in translation. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 455 - Irish Literature
3 Credit(s)
Examines Irish literature and its sometimes contentious, always significant impact on European culture. The course may be either an historical overview, with texts from the Book of Kells to Joyce’s Ulysses, or a genre study with particular emphasis on Irish drama, poetry, or novels. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 471 - Renaissance
3 Credit(s)
Examines the literature of this self-aware intellectual movement, frequently called humanism, that was committed to exploration of all aspects of the self and the world in a manner understood as a rebirth of the spirit of ancient Rome and Greece. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 472 - Enlightenment
3 Credit(s)
Examines the literary and non-literary texts produced in Europe and America during the Enlightenment period (roughly 1650-1800). Interprets the intellectual developments and discursive innovations in writings by Descartes, Rousseau, Dryden, Pope, Voltaire, Locke, Jefferson, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and others. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 473 - Romanticism
3 Credit(s)
Readings in European and American literatures that embrace a loosely-knit theory that literature and the arts should be expressions of individuals and that the source of these expressions is the individual’s imagination. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 474 - Realism
3 Credit(s)
Readings in European and American literatures that examine a tension between two theories of realism which suggests that the business of realism is to create a photographic record of the world, and that which says the goal of art is to reveal the underlying structure of reality. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 475 - Modernism
3 Credit(s)
Examines texts produced during the height of modernism (roughly 1910 to 1940) and sees how social, cultural, and economic factors influenced these modernist artists and their art, particularly in terms of what Andreas Huyssen describes the work of modernist art as “autonomous, self-referential, self-conscious, ironic, ambiguous, experimental, rejecting all classical systems of representation, and adversarial toward the bourgeois.” As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 476 - Postmodernism
3 Credit(s)
Explores novels and short fiction written during the latter half of the twentieth century specifically those that challenge literary and cultural norms. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 479 - Topics in Aesthetic Movements
3 Credit(s)
Studies in international aesthetic movements such as Surrealism, Symbolism, Constructivism, Mysticism, Impressionism, etc. Topics vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 .
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LITR 495 - Special Topics
1-12 Credit(s)
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LITR 498 - Tutorial
1-3 Credit(s)
Independent study in speech communication, composition, literature or linguistics with faculty supervision. Plans for specific program must be approved by department chair and Dean of Arts and Sciences.
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LITR 511 - Advanced Topics: Literary Nonfiction
3 Credit(s)
Examines nonfiction (biography, autobiography, the essay, new journalism) of literary value. Integrates close analysis of primary texts, secondary criticism, and critical theory. Focus will vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 ; or Graduate standing.
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LITR 512 - Advanced Topics: Short Story
3 Credit(s)
Examines the short story as a specific modern genre, beginning with examination of the form’s emergence in the early nineteenth century and concluding with readings of contemporary texts. Integrates close analysis of primary texts, secondary criticism, and critical theory. Authors and focus will vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 ; or Graduate standing.
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LITR 513 - Advanced Topics: Drama
3 Credit(s)
Examines the forms and traditions of drama. Integrates close analysis of primary texts, secondary criticism, and critical theory. Topics will vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 ; or Graduate standing.
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LITR 514 - Advanced Topics: Poetry
3 Credit(s)
Examines the forms and traditions of poetry. Integrates close analysis of primary texts, secondary criticism, and critical theory. Topics will vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 ; or Graduate standing.
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LITR 515 - Advanced Topics: The Novel
3 Credit(s)
Examines the novel from a variety of foci-through genre, period, theme, or topic-based constraints. Integrates close analysis of primary texts, secondary criticism, and critical theory. Topics will vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 ; or Graduate standing.
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LITR 520 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s)
Examination of a special topic in literature, focusing on a genre, literary movement, or specific author(s). Topics will vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 ; or Graduate standing.
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LITR 523 - Major Authors
3 Credit(s)
For each offering a major author from English, American, or World literature will be chosen for detailed study. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 ; or Graduate standing.
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LITR 530 - Advanced Topics: Film
3 Credit(s)
This course studies film as a specific modern genre, beginning with examination of the form’s emergence in the late nineteenth century and concluding with readings/viewings of contemporary films. Integrates close analysis of primary films, secondary criticism, and film theory. Films and focus will vary from semester to semester. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 , LITR 201 or LITR 330 and LITR 300 ; or Graduate standing.
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LITR 580 - Literary Theory and Research
3 Credit(s)
Builds on LITR 300 to provide a detailed examination of particular theoretical approaches currently used in literary analysis. Some attention to combining theoretical approaches, such as psychoanalytic with feminist. Students complete an independent research project on the topic of their choice, informed by literary theory and current literary criticism. As warranted.
Prerequisite(s): LITR 200 or LITR 201 , and LITR 300 ; or Graduate standing.
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