Spring Upper-Division Course Descriptions Available
What would William Shakespeare's Othello look like if it were staged as a Bollywood film?
How do Native literatures resist dominant narratives about domesticity, marriage, & heteronormativity?
Why are there so many knights, dragons, and fairies in Medieval English literature?
What might we learn if we examine literature through the lens of energy forms like coal or wind power?
How does the way information is presented influence how we receive information?
How can Lego blocks, craft instructions, and cookie recipes help us become technical writers?
How have dominant modes of literary theory excluded women, people of color, and immigrants, and how might we adopt new ways of making meaning?
How have fables, folktales, and fairytales contributed to the development of children’s and adolescent literature as a distinct form of writing?
What happens at the intersections of transformation—physical, emotional, spiritual, and creative—and power, growth, and meaning?
What aesthetic issues inform the Jewish-American literary tradition?
How might we respond to social issues in non-traditional genres like podcasts, infographics, and social media posts?
How does Asian American literature & film engage political & cultural questions about race, gender, citizenship, imperialism & belonging?
What does transformation—physical, emotional, spiritual, and creative—in literature have to tell us about power, growth, and meaning?
How does Shakespeare shape our discourses about gender, sexuality, power, consent, race, & colonialism?
How have historical, cultural, and social contexts shaped literary movements such as the Harlem Renaissance, the Protest Period, the Black Arts Movement, the New Black Aesthetic, and the Post-Soul Aesthetic?
Why was James Joyce's Ulysses part of an obscenity lawsuit and how has the ruling influenced our freedom of expression?
How can understanding grammatical interrelationships in sentences help me become a better writer?
How can critical and literary theory help me understand literature in new ways?
How can examining point of view, narrative form, voice, character, & tone help me become a better fiction writer?
What do Gulliver and the Lilliputians have to teach us about 18th century understandings of religious, political, social, and intellectual issues?
As readers, how might we situate ourselves within literary and cultural texts?