Introduces skills in reading, interpreting, and researching criticism of key texts in American and/or European poetry.

Introduces skills in reading, interpreting, and researching criticism of key texts in American and/or world fiction.

Introduces skills in reading, interpreting, and researching criticism of key texts in American and/or world drama.

Introduces skills in reading, interpreting, and researching criticism of key texts in American and/or world film.

Introduces skills in reading, interpreting, and researching criticism of visual and verbal texts.

This course focuses on African American literature from the 1700s to the present. Students examine writings from the aesthetic, historical, social, economic, and political contexts that inform these works. This course can be used to satisfy University Studies requirements.

Studies selected modern writers from 1870 to the present. This course may be repeated provided the subject matter differs. This course can be used to satisfy University Studies requirements.

Each semester in which this course is offered, the theme and works to be studied will be designated. The course may be repeated provided the subject matter differs. This course can be used to satisfy University Studies requirements.

Under faculty direction, students engage in directed readings and tutorials that lead to the production of a major research paper or creative project that involves analysis of primary and secondary works. This course can be used to satisfy University Studies requirements.