Humanities and Fine Arts: Literature Emphasis

This is a survey course of Western art from the Prehistoric Period through the Renaissance, employing illustrated lectures, independent research, museum visits, and discussion.

This course is a survey of Western art from the Renaissance through the present time, employing illustrated lectures, independent research, museum visits, and discussion.

Social and cultural variables in speech communication processes and strategies for resolving communication problems in intercultural settings with an emphasis on variables such as perception, roles, language codes, and nonverbal communication will be examined in this course.

This course will focus on critical thinking and research-based writing through comparative and interdisciplinary analysis. Alongside lectures and class discussion, the study of representative great works of Western and non-Western literature from Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance will emphasize the literary, cultural, and religious significance of these texts. Co-requisite: CHST 201; written permission from the Core Curriculum director is needed to take CENG 201 as an unlinked course.

This course begins with the mythology of the Ancient Egyptians, the theology of the Hebrews, the philosophy of the Greeks, tracing the legacy of each stand of thought throughout the world with attention being paid to both the primary leaders and significant texts and how they shaped divergent world views today. It is recommended that Western Civilization 1 and 2 have previously been taken.

In this capstone course students will meet with an instructor once per week in order to formulate, research, and discuss an appropriate topic for their written project. Topics must be interdisciplinary, combining their emphasis within the major with another discipline within the major. Prerequisite: Humanities and Fine Arts majors and senior standing.

This course will introduce students to the study of music as a universal cultural phenomenon and the discipline of ethnomusicology, with exposure to the musical and social aspects of a variety of folk, traditional, and art music of Latin America, Africa, India, North America, and contemporary mass media. Prerequisite: MUS 101 or equivalent knowledge and experience in music strongly encouraged.

Introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology and of music as a universal cultural phenomenon, with exposure to the musical and social aspects of a variety of folk, traditional and art music of regions from Eastern Europe to Asia, including the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Oceania, China, Japan, and Korea. Prerequisite: MUS 101 or equivalent knowledge and experience in music strongly encouraged.

A survey course of the world's major non-Christian religions including motifs, belief patterns, ritual and worship, ethics and social patterns, origin and development, and sacred writings.

This course will provide an overview of the various conventions, forms, styles, and genres of the theatre, including principles of play analysis and exploration of theatre criticism from dramaturgical, literary, and cultural perspectives through the thematic discussions of representative contemporary plays. Field trips required.

A survey of American literature from its beginning to 1850, this course will include journals, diaries, sermons, and pamphlets, with an emphasis on the writings of Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, and Melville. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202.

A survey of American literature from 1850 to 1945, this course will emphasize the literary movements of Realism, Naturalism, as well as the roots of modern American literature. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202.

This survey course will look at British literature from the late 18th through the 19th century, considering the Romantic and Victorian approaches to life through the study and critical discussion of such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Robert Browning. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202.

A survey of representative English prose, poetry, and drama from the Anglo-Saxon period to 1800, this course will look at the readings from such writers as the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Swift, Pope, and Johnson. Students will also become acquainted with the literary heritage of the English-speaking world. Prerequisite: Eng 201 or CEng 201 or 202.

An intensive study of literature written by women, emphasizing representations of gender in different cultural and aesthetic contexts and exploring the unique contributions and genres particular to women’s writing. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

This course provides for in-depth study of postcolonial theory and literature from South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. Readings and discussions will focus on postcolonial theory, common themes, literary technique, the role of religion, and the question of personal and national identity. Prerequisite: ENG 201.

An advanced survey course that will look at the development of literary modernism as represented in major European and American novels, including such novelists as Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, and Ellison. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202.

This course will read, critically analyze, discuss, and evaluate selected plays from 1890 through the 21st century, including such dramatists as Ibsen, O'Neill, Pirandello, Lorca, Miller, Williams, and Albee. Attending a performance may be required. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202.

Extensive reading and in-depth study of one or more significant American authors with special attention to their themes, literary techniques, and traditions is the focus of this course. Prerequisites: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202, ENG 271, 341, or 342.

Extensive reading and in-depth study of significant longer works by several English authors with special attention to their themes and literary techniques. Prerequisites: ENG 201, 271, 281 and 361 or 362 or consent of instructor.

Critical reading and analysis of selected examples of Shakespeare's histories, comedies, and tragedies is the focus of this course. Prerequisite: ENG 201 or CENG 201 or 202, ENG 271.