Undergraduate Courses in Writing, Literature & Publishing

4.00 Credits
A group of writing seminars designed to build on knowledge and skills acquired in WP 101. Each seminar focuses on a central subject such as Myths of the Hero, Images of Good and Evil, Travel and Exploration, and The Individual and Society. Readings include works of fiction and analysis from a variety of theoretical perspectives (psychology, sociology, literature and cultural criticism). Writing assignments help students extend their writing skills to such intellectually challenging tasks as analyzing texts, evaluating theories, and using concepts to explore problems. Each student will write approximately 40 pages of prose, including short essays, revisions and an extended essay investigating a problem in the student's major field of interest.) Prerequisite: WP 101.

(FALL07) Vanessa Carlisle  Anne Champion  Carly Drown  Michelle Graham  Sean Lanigan  Linda Miller  Rebecca Viola  Tracy Strauss  Susan Vinovrski  (SPRG08) Alicia Abood  Aaron Block  Kara Brown  Vanessa Carlisle  Kelly Caiazzo  Anne Champion  Kirstin Chen  Shannon Derby  Carly Drown  Kathleen Gonso  Steven Himmer  Daniela Kukrechtova  Sean Lanigan  Kim Liao  Edward Moss  Linda Miller  Carl Martin  Elizabeth Parfitt  Elisabeth Price  Rebecca Viola  Tracy Strauss  Nicholas Vreeland  Susan Vinovrski  Anne Wheeler 

4.00 Credits
These courses focus on the basic vocabulary, techniques, and traditions in the chosen genre. All courses will include the discussion of published work. Students will practice their writing craft through exercises and other assignments, many of which will be shared with the class in an introductory workshop setting. These courses may be repeated once for credit.

(FALL07) Lise Haines  Michael Heppner  Alden Jones  William Orem  Jon Papernick  (SPRG08) MaryEllen Beveridge  Michael Heppner  Alden Jones  Jon Papernick  Michael Rosovsky 

4.00 Credits
These courses focus on the basic vocabulary, techniques, and traditions in the chosen genre. All courses will include the discussion of published work. Students will practice their writing craft through exercises and other assignments, many of which will be shared with the class in an introductory workshop setting. These courses may be repeated once for credit.

(FALL07) Christine Casson  Rebecca Frank  (SPRG08) Rebecca Frank  Sarah Green 

4.00 Credits
These courses focus on the basic vocabulary, techniques, and traditions in the chosen genre. All courses will include the discussion of published work. Students will practice their writing craft through exercises and other assignments, many of which will be shared with the class in an introductory workshop setting. These courses may be repeated once for credit.

(FALL07) Morgan Baker  Meta Wagner  (SPRG08) Morgan Baker  Rebecca Frank  Meta Wagner 

4 Credits
A practical course that covers the process of editing and preparing manuscripts for publication. Together with hands-on assignments, the course considers the relation of editor to author, the nature of copyediting in various publishing environments, and other topics.

(FALL07) Carol Parikh  (SPRG08) Carol Parikh  Daniel Weaver 

4.00 Credits
A course designed to give students the opportunity to research and write a magazine feature or article. The techniques used are designed to help improve both writing and critical thinking. Students will learn terms, concepts, and techniques that should help improve their writing. Prerequisite: completion of WP 207. This course may be repeated once for credit.

(FALL07) Delia Cabe  (SPRG08) Delia Cabe 

4.00 Credits
4 credits Original essays, poems, plays, and short stories are written and presented in class for criticism and discussion. Students will also read and discuss published work in the genre. Prerequisite: See below. These courses may be repeated once for credit.

(FALL07) Lise Haines  Michael Heppner  Kevin Miller  William Orem  Jon Papernick  Michael Rosovsky  Peter Shippy  (SPRG08) Lise Haines  Alden Jones  Kevin Miller  William Orem  Jon Papernick  Jessica Treadway 

4.00 Credits
Original essays, poems, plays, and short stories are written and presented in class for criticism and discussion. Students will also read and discuss published work in the genre. Prerequisite: See below. These courses may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: WP 212 or WP 217.

(FALL07) Gail Mazur  John Skoyles  Peter Shippy  (SPRG08) John Skoyles  Peter Shippy 

4.00 Credits
Original essays, poems, plays, and short stories are written and presented in class for criticism and discussion. Students will also read and discuss published work in the genre. Prerequisite: See below. These courses may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: WP 211 or WP 217.

(FALL07) Sinan Unel  (SPRG08) Sinan Unel 

4.00 Credits
Original essays, poems, plays, and short stories are written and presented in class for criticism and discussion. Students will also read and discuss published work in the genre. Prerequisite: See below. These courses may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: WP211 or WP 217.

(FALL07) Michael Bent  (SPRG08) Michael Bent 

4.00 Credits
Original essays, poems, plays, and short stories are written and presented in class for criticism and discussion. Students will also read and discuss published work in the genre. Prerequisite: See below. These courses may be repeated once for credit. Prerequisite: WP 216.

(FALL07) Megan Marshall  (SPRG08) Joseph Hurka  Megan Marshall 

4.00 Credits
A course designed to give students an understanding of the magazine field from the perspective of writers and editors. The course will look at the similarities and differences between general interest magazines and more focused magazines, and how magazines compete with each other and with other media for audiences and revenues. Topics such as how magazines carve out niches and the relationship between the business and editorial departments will be discussed. Editorial operations of magazines, focusing on such topics as editorial mix and magazine geography will be examined. The course will also look at the history of the magazine industry. Junior or senior standing required.

(FALL07) William Beuttler  Gian Lombardo  (SPRG08) William Beuttler  Deblina Chakraborty 

4.00 Credits
The course examines the acquisition and editing of the manuscript, its progress into design and production, and the final strategies of promotion and distribution of a finished book. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing.

(FALL07) David Emblidge  Daniel Weaver  (SPRG08) David Emblidge  Daniel Weaver 

4.00 Credits
Introduction to graphic design software for publishing and the basics of design and illustration. This course covers QuarkXpress, the publishing software used by a majority of professionals in the industry. Through assigned exercises and a final project, students learn the ins and outs of the software. In addition, the course reviews related design, illustration, and image-editing software; image sourcing and acquisition, including scanning; and the predecessors to computer-based graphic design, typography, and production. This course assumes the student has basic PC skills.

(FALL07) Melissa Gruntkosky  (SPRG08) Melissa Gruntkosky  Rebecca Krzyzaniak 

4.00 Credits
For students already seriously engaged in writing poetry. In-class discussion of original poems. As the course pays special attention to getting published, students are encouraged to send their work out to magazines. This course may be repeated once with the instructor's permission. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing and completion of a 300-level writing course in poetry.

(FALL07) William Knott  Peter Shippy  (SPRG08) Jonathan Aaron 

4.00 Credits
Extensive fiction writing, short stories and/or novels coupled with in-class reading for criticism and suggestions. This course may be repeated once with the instructor's permission. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing and completion of a 300-level writing course in fiction.

(FALL07) Risa Miller  Jessica Treadway  Mako Yoshikawa  (SPRG08) Lise Haines  William Orem  Mako Yoshikawa 

4 Credits
An advanced writing workshop in various nonfiction forms, such as memoir, travel writing, literary journalism, or other narrative nonfiction writing. Students will already have completed at least one nonfiction workshop, have a project in development, and be capable of discussing such techniques as characterization, point of view, and narrative structure as they appear in literary nonfiction forms. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing and completion of a 300-level writing course in non-fiction.

(FALL07) Richard Hoffman  (SPRG08) Richard Hoffman 

4 Credits
In this class students will learn how to generate and refine stand-up comedy material, work on developing a five minute routine, and perform that routine at a comedy club. This course is suitable for first-time performers, as well as established performers.

(SPRG08) Michael Bent 

4.00 Credits
Primarily focused on works-in-progress, this course also includes study/discussion of scripts produced for film and television, as well as exercises in different kinds of dramatic structure and dialogue. Goal: the completion of a first-draft, full-length script for film or TV, or revision/polish of a work-in-progress. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: junior or senior standing and completion of a 300-level writing course in fiction. This course may be repeated once for credit. (This course may count toward the Media Arts major or toward the WLP major.)

(FALL07) Andrew Clarke  (SPRG08) Christopher Keane 

4.00 Credits
This course covers magazine design fundamentals; typography; image research and assignment; prepress and manufacturing; and traditional and computer-based tools and equipment. Each student produces a sample magazine through a workshop process of presentations and revisions. This is not a computer lab course. Prerequisite: WP395 (may be taken concurrently) or permission of the instructor.

(FALL07) Lisa Diercks 

4.00 Credits
Required of all BFA majors: During the final semester of his/her senior year, each student produces an extended literary workseveral short stories, a group of poems, a short novel, a nonfiction narrative, a piece of investigative journalism, a play or a film script. Each student works independently, but consults regularly with an adviser to evaluate and revise portions of the work-in-progress. The final manuscript measures and represents the student's abilities and his/her commitment to a serious creative endeavor. Senior BFA Writing majors only.

(FALL07) Christine Casson  (SPRG08) Jonathan Aaron  Bernard Brooks  Risa Miller  William Orem  Peter Shippy 

4.00 Credits
Special offerings in Electronic Publishing, Book Reviewing, and Copyediting, among others. May be repeated for credit if topics differ. Prerequisite: WP 380 or WP 383.

(FALL07) Thea Singer 

4.00 Credits
Book Publishing Sales and Marketing is designed as an extension of Emerson's Book Publishing Overview course for students who want to further explore the sales and marketing sides of the business. It starts with where marketing and sales fit into the life of a book, the differences between the two areas, and the distinct effect that each, done well or badly, has on a book's success. It then tracks the marketing and sales process through a book's publication with specific assignments at each stage based on real-world publishing tasksfrom sales forecasting to planning and budgeting for marketing campaigns, writing catalog copy and title information sheets, conceiving and writing promotional materials, sales conference preparation and planning, sales calls, and the retailers' buying processes.

(SPRG08) Beth Ineson 

4.00 Credits
This course covers book and book jacket design fundamentals; typography; image research and assignment; prepress and manufacturing; and traditional and computer-based tools and equipment. The class, as a group, will edit, design, and produce a book (content to be decided in class). This is not a computer lab course.

(SPRG08) Alex Camlin 

4.00 Credits
This is an upper-level undergraduate magazine publishing coursedesigned to give students an understanding of the process ofresearching, writing, and revising magazine columns with anunderstanding of the importance of audience. The course will draw onboth the published writing of seasoned columnists from a variety ofgenres as well as weekly columns written by students.

(SPRG08) Jeffrey Seglin 

0.00 Credits
Internships involve work in publishing and other related areas. Students should plan to attend class meetings during the internship semester. Only juniors and seniors with a current 2.7 GPA are eligible. A 4-credit internship requires 16 hours a week over a 12 week period and a 8-credit internship requires 32 hours a week over a 12 week period. No more than eight credits of internship and no more than 12 credits of any combination of internship, directed project and directed study may be applied to the total graduation requirements. Students must participate in the Internship Experience Workshop offered through Career Services, prior to the start of the internship. Students who wish to participate in an internship in the Los Angeles, CA area must be enrolled in the Emerson Los Angeles Program. This course cannot be added after the regular registration period. Please consult the academic calendar for registration deadlines.

(FALL07) Gian Lombardo  (SPRG08) Gian Lombardo 

4.00 Credits
In this class, we will be studying syntax and grammar, pronunciation and diction. The various methods used in class include translations, exercises and drills. In addition, written and oral quizzes will be given on a weekly basis to ensure that the new material and vocabulary are memorized and mastered. The goal of the course is to give students a solid knowledge of essential vocabulary and primary grammatical structures both in written and spoken French. (FALL07) Pierre Hurel 

4.00 Credits
A continuation of LF 101, this course also incorporates reading skills and exposes students to a wider range of cultural materials. (SPRG08) Pierre Hurel 

4.00 Credits
A survey of some foundational works of Western literature in poetry, nonfiction, fiction and drama, designed to familiarize students with literary history as well as the history of our notions of the afterlife, love, duty, virtue and vice. Authors studied may include Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Boccaccio, the Beowulf poet, and Chaucer. Prerequisite: WP 121 or HS 101. Fullfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements. (FALL07) Brian Cronin  Yu-jin Chang  Julie Humphreys  (SPRG08) Brian Cronin  Yu-jin Chang 

4.00 Credits
An introduction to representative works of American literature in several genres from the colonial period to the modern by writers such as Bradstreet, Franklin, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Douglass, Melville, Dickinson, Whitman, Chopin, Twain, Crane, Hurston, Faulkner, Williams, and Moore. Prerequisite: WP 121 or HS 101. Fullfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements. (FALL07) John Barnard  Brian Cronin  Raymond Liddell  (SPRG08) Gaynor Blandford  James Byrne  Michelle Graham 

4.00 Credits
An historical overview and introduction to several genres of British Literature from the Renaissance to the 20th Century, focusing on writers such as More, Spenser, Milton, Defoe, Bronte, Eliot, Joyce, and Beckett. Prerequisite: WP 121 or HS 101. Fullfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements. (FALL07) Christina Carlson  Roy Kamada  Karen Lindsey  (SPRG08) Christina Carlson  Raymond Liddell 

4.00 Credits
This course surveys Classical and Renaissance theories of Epic, beginning with Homer's Iliad, and extending through Lucan's Pharsalia, Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Milton's Paradise Lost. It considers the question of the kinds of subjects that are most suitable to epic treatment, analyzing the successes and failures of modern epics in poetry, fiction, epic theater, and film, from the eighteenth-century to the present. Modern authors include: Blake, Keats, Pound, Zurkofsky, Williams, Martenson, Merrill, Walcott, Brecht, Fassbinder, Pynchon, and Aranofsky. Students will complete a final project that either begins the process of composing their open epic work, or that engages with the texts and themes of the course in an extended research paper. (FALL07) Christina Carlson 

4.00 Credits
Slipstream does not define a category, but suggests an approach, an attitude toward art. It's not surrealism or magical realism or science fiction: it's a state-of-the-art concept that embraces a curiosity with the visionary, unreliable, odd or metaphysical. Cyberpunk auteur Bruce Sterling coined the phrase to describe writing "& which unnerves; the way that living in the 21st century makes you feel, if you are a person of a certain sensibility. Slipstream is the Interzone that William Burroughs wrote about." This semester we will explore work that crosses and jumps and leaps over genre, over borders, and over language to ride the next wave. (FALL07) Peter Shippy 

4.00 Credits
Through a close reading of selections from fiction, non-fiction and drama this course will examine the dominant voices in American writing from 1950 onwards as the country and its literature turned away from the large themes of war and peace to the examination of identity, the life of the mind and a critique of the American Dream. Works to be examined will include the novels of John Updike, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, the new journalism of Norman Mailer and the plays of Arthur Miller. (SPRG08) Raymond Liddell 

4.00 Credits
This course will consider the centrality of race, religion, and violence to American history and culture. Through our reading of antebellum anti-slavery literature (Stowe, Delany), slave narratives (Douglass, Jacobs), and a variety of 19th- and 20th-century American novels (Melville, Faulkner, Ellison), we will examine how religious rhetoric was employed on both sides of the slavery debate, how religion often serves as either mask or justification for forms of institutional violence, how providential thinking has influenced American literature, culture, and politics, and how literary artists go about refiguring religious texts and ideas in an American context. (SPRG08) John Barnard 

4.00 Credits
There is nothing new about disappointment, lost love, ruined opportunity, and death. So how on earth can writers continue to show grief in fresh and compelling ways? The challenge is a formidable one, but there seems no end to the poems, stories, and plays that render grief as if for the first time. Come prepared to expand your sense of what it is to be human, and please, no large handkerchiefs; there is a paradoxical pleasure from good literary art  a small hanky will do. Readings will include the poems of T. S. Eliot and Anne Stevenson, the stories of Luisa Valenzuela and Eudora Welty, and plays of William Saroyan and William Shakespeare. (SPRG08) Marcia Karp 

4.00 Credits
This course is an introduction to some of the poetry, fiction and other genres produced in the multicultural U.S.A. Focusing on four major American literatures we will examine the ways that writers from disparate communities have used various literary forms to articulate resistance, community and citizenship. We will situate these literary texts in their historical contexts in order to better understand the writing strategies of each author. We will broaden our understanding of literature to include essays, journalism, and films, so that we can learn how diverse cultural texts work to represent America. Fullfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements and the U.S. Diversity requirement. (FALL07) James Byrne  Sarah Cleveland  Erika Williams  (SPRG08) Sarah Cleveland  Sarah Green  Erika Williams 

4.00 Credits
Latino Literature explores the idea of borderlands or living on the hyphen by American writerswho identify themselves as tradling two cultures.  We will read poetry, essays, fiction and theater by authors in the following traditions:  Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban and DominicanAmerican literatures. Fulfills the Literary Perspective and the General Education U.S. Diversity requirement. (FALL07) Flora Gonzalez 

4.00 Credits
Fiction, poetry, and other genres by 19th- and 20th-century American women such as Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Eudora Welty, Adrienne Rich, and Toni Morrison. Fulfills the Literary Perspective of the General Education requirements and the U.S. Diversity requirement. (FALL07) Shannon Derby  Rebecca Frank  (SPRG08) Jasmine Beach-Ferrara  Shannon Derby 

4.00 Credits
This course considers how Latin American authors use poetry, drama, essay and fiction to provide alternative versions of national foundations, revolutionary movements and political repression.  We will view literary writing in relationship to the languages of scientific inquiry, myth, history, sociology, psychology and journalism.  (SPRG08) Flora Gonzalez 

4.00 Credits
This course will examine contemporary narratives of growth and education (the bildungsroman) by writers from diverse national cultures. We will study the ways that these writers narrate their paths to adulthood, taking into consideration the particular dynamics of power, politics, and imperial influence in each writer's local culture. We will pay close attention to the ways history and schooling interact to shape identity. Potential writers include Langston Hughes, Michelle Cliff, TsiTsi Dangarembga, Jamaica Kincaid, Ernesto Galarza, Piri Thomas, Richard Wright. Fulfills the Literary Perspective and the General Education Global Diversity requirement. (FALL07) Wendy Walters 

4.00 Credits
War, occupation, and the domination of one group or faction over another are all factors that inevitably produce a very complex and tense socio-political climate. Those living in such a place at such a time often experience prejudice, sexism, racism, violence, humiliation and a sense of loss; whether it be of home, community, country, or self. This course will examine literature from different parts of the globe that addresses the anxieties which specifically stem from war, occupation and political unrest. Through close reading and analysis, we will explore the genres of poetry, fiction, memoir and film that reflect the struggle of individuals trying to find their place in complex and hostile environments. (SPRG08) Julie Humphreys 

4.00 Credits
The course will examine a variety of European literature from the late medieval period, including popular as well as lesser known works both religious and secular. The primary theme of the course will be on the "moral dimension." We will focus on the medieval conception of morality and social interaction as a manifestation of cultural, religious, sexual, and gender constructs and, consequently, the pervasive influence of such constructs on contemporary western society. We will examine a variety of prose genres including the romance, moral treatise, exemplum, fabliau, and hagiography along with lyric and alliterative poetry and representative examples of the medieval drama. Besides the ubiquitous "anonymous" writers of the period, we will be reading works by authors such as Guillaume de Deguileville, Andreas Capellanus, Christine de Pizan, William Langland, Marie de France, Robert Mannyng, Jacobus de Voragine, Guillaume de Lorris, and Chrétien de Troyes. In conjunction with our study of literary forms, we will also explore the notion of "visual literacy" by examining the strong iconographic tradition which supported and informed the texts. (SPRG08) Brian Cronin 

4 Credits
Students study the scope of literary nonfiction, reading a broad range of nonfiction works, present and past, paying particular attention to the craft within the non-fiction work but identifying relationships and similarities that literary non-fiction has with the novel and short story. The class will read from such diverse forms as historical narrative, adventure travel and survival, memoir and the creative non-fiction essay, the true crime nonfiction novel, and other forms of fact writing artfully constructed. (SPRG08) Richard Hoffman 

4 Credits
Students study modern and postmodern traditions of poetry by exploring the works of such 20th-century poets as T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, W.H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Philip Larkin, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery and, in translation, Pablo Neruda, R.M. Rilke, Zbigniew Herbert, Shiraishi Kazuk and Marina Tsvetaeva. (SPRG08) Charles Reynolds 

4 Credits
A survey of masterpieces of European literature from the Middle Ages to the dawning of the 20th Century. This course may include such areas as the medieval romance and the epic, the Renaissance humanism of Rabelais and Montaigne, the Spanish Golden Age, Cervantes and Calderon de Barca and Sor Juana Innes de la Cruz, 17th Century classicism in Racine, Moliere and Madame de Lafayette, Enlightenment literature, romanticism, realism and symbolism in the continental poetry and fiction of the 19 Century, the dramas of Chekov and Strindberg, la belle époque and the early existentialism of Unamuno. (FALL07) Yu-jin Chang  (SPRG08) Yu-jin Chang 

4.00 Credits
Through reading and discussing a variety of poems from different historical periods, students will learn about the technical aspects of poetry (such as meter, rhyme, and structure) and how poets use these techniques to create meanings and effects. It therefore aims to give students a critical vocabulary for reading and practicing poetry. This is a course for people who want to increase their understanding of, pleasure in, and ability to discuss and write about poetry by learning the essentials of the poet's art. Prerequisite for Upper-level LI Courses: For 300-level LI courses: at least one LI course numbered below 300, or permission of instructor. For WLP majors this must include at least one of the following: LI201, 202, 203. (FALL07) Robin Riley Fast 

4 Credits
Students read a broad range of fiction works in the genres of both short story and the novel by American and international authors. The course will teach students to look at fiction from the perspective of the writer's craft, and will emphasize such elements as structure, narrative, characterization, dialogue, and the differences between shorter and longer forms. Students will come away with an appreciation of the fiction writer's craft and an enhanced sense of the drama inherent in good written storytelling. (FALL07) Bernard Brooks 

4.00 Credits
A study of the adaptation of novels into films, with the aim of understanding the narrative conventions that govern each medium. Texts include the works of such writers as Kesey, Burgess, Kundera, Walker, Nabokov, and Puig; films include the work of directors such as Kubrick, Forman, Spielberg, and Babenco. Prerequisite for Upper-level LI Courses: For 300-level LI courses: at least one LI course numbered below 300, or permission of instructor. For WLP majors this must include at least one of the following: LI201, 202, 203. (FALL07) Kevin Miller 

4.00 Credits
A course designed to acquaint students with the changing thematic and stylistic concerns of the American short story (including works by Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, and others) and to develop critical writing and reading skills. (SPRG08) Kevin Miller 

4.00 Credits
A study of selected 18th- and 19th-century British novels by writers such as Fielding, Richardson, Austen, the Brontes, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy. (FALL07) Raymond Liddell 

4.00 Credits
A study of selected novels written after 1900 by writers such as Woolf, Lawrence, Joyce, Forster, Durrell, Lessing, Spark, Greene, Murdoch, Golding, Fowles, and others. (SPRG08) Christina Carlson 

4.00 Credits
A study of works in several genres, including consideration of how traditional myth, story and ritual contribute to contemporary fiction and poetry, and how the literature reflects and responds to historical and contemporary conditions. Readings include works by such authors as Leslie Marmon Silko, N. Scott Momaday, Simon J. Ortiz, Joy Harjo, and Louise Erdrich. Fulfills the General Education U.S. Multiculturalism requirement. (SPRG08) Robin Riley Fast 

4.00 Credits
A careful examination of selected tragedies from Romeo and Juliet to Antony and Cleopatra, emphasizing the development of tragic form. A writing intensive course requiring two short papers and one long research paper. (FALL07) DeWitt Henry 

4.00 Credits
A detailed study of selected comedies from A Midsummer Night's Dream to The Winter's Tale, emphasizing Shakespeare's development of comic form. A writing intensive course requiring two short papers and one long research paper. (SPRG08) DeWitt Henry 

4.00 Credits
A survey of contemporary world literature written in English by writers from such places as India, Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka. Fulfills the General Education Global Diversity requirement. (FALL07) Roy Kamada 

4.00 Credits
A survey of African-American literature from Olaudah Equiano through Toni Morrison. This course will study African-American literature as part of the field of diaspora studies. Readings will encompass prose, poetry and drama, as we examine the connections between African-American and Caribbean-American literatures, conceived as literatures of the African diaspora. Fulfills the General Education U.S. Diversity requirement. (FALL07) Wendy Walters 

4.00 Credits
A study of representative American novels written before the 20th-century, including works by such authors as Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, Twain, Chopin, Wharton, and James. (SPRG08) Robin Riley Fast 

4.00 Credits
A study of representative works of twentieth centure American fiction. May cover authors from the first half of the century such as Anderson, Cather, Faulkner, James, Hemingway,Dreiser, Wright, Ellison, Bellows and/or others; as well as more contemporary writers such as Roth, Coover, Nabokov, Morrison, Delillo, Burroughs, Momaday, Silko or others, depending on the instructor. (SPRG08) John Barnard 

4.00 Credits
An exploration of the work of some contemporary international women writers, in its social and political context. Readings include works by such writers as Nadine Gordimer, Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, Mawal El Saadawi, Bessie Head, Luisa Valenzuela and others. Fulfills the General Education Global Diversity requirement. (SPRG08) Maria Koundoura 

4 Credits
A class of special offerings in which students study prominent and emerging poets and schools of poetry with an emphasis on exploring the intersection between individual technique and aesthetic traditions, from the formal to the avant garde to culturally and politically conscious expressions of the art. The class will be principally concerned with poets writing in the English language, though important figures from other language traditions may be read in translation. (FALL07) William Knott 

4.00 Credits
This course number will designate special offerings in European Literature that take advantage of the special interests and expertise of faculty, for example the Romantic Age, Russian Short Fiction, Absurd and Avant-Garde Theater, and the Nineteenth-Century European Novel.. May be repeated for credit if topics differ. (FALL07) Roy Kamada 

4.00 Credits
A course exploring the problem of aesthetic judgment and the relation between aesthetics, ethics and politics. Through a series of readings across periods (from the 18th century to today) and across disciplines (from philosophy, to film, to fiction, to poetry , to art) the course will examine what it means to be a member of an aesthetic community, as well as how communities shape aesthetic values and impact political repsonsiblities. In other words, the course will look at how "taste" constructs us as we construct it. (SPRG08) Maria Koundoura 

4.00 Credits
An exploration of European literary works haunted by a sense of "evil" as defined by Georges Bataille, whose "Literature of Evil" provides the theoretical framework for the course.  There will be a particular focus on the practice of close reading, textual analysis and theoretically oriented criticism.  Works by Emily Brontë, Baudelaire, Genet, Kafka, Sade, Sartre, Thomas Bernhard and Michel Houellebecq. In addition to the two research papers required for the course, short weekly written responses to the readings and a class presentation will be expected of all students (SPRG08) Yu-jin Chang 

4.00 Credits
Students will study the forms of poetry as used by historical and contemporary poets, and then write original poems in those forms (such as sonnet, villanelle, haiku, sestina, renga, syllabic), and genre forms (such as Surrealist poem, Expressionist poem, Anti-poem, Open Field poem, Language poem). (SPRG08) William Knott 

4.00 Credits
In-depth study of three especially rich novels: Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, and Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water. Studying the novels "in their worlds," we will consider literary influences, cultural sources, historical and political contexts--for example, Shakespeare's King Lear, African American stories of flying Africans, the Civil Rights movement, biblical and Native American creation stories--as well as such elements of the writer's craft as style, structure, and narration. (SPRG08) Robin Riley Fast 

4.00 Credits
This course will examine the literature of Native and non-Native America in order to define conceptions of nature within these two traditions.  We will begin with the assumption that perceptions of landscape are rooted in religious belief, and focus on Native Creation and Emergence stories, comparing their view of nature with that found in Genesis.  We will then consider those specific landscapes that are a source of tribal cohesion and belief as revealed in the poetry, prayers, and narratives of Native people and, within the Judeo-Christian tradition, explore the Puritan conception of nature as "wilderness."  After studying the work of 18th century writers and artists and 19th century authors such as Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, and Melville, we will focus our attention on the various responses of both Native and non-Native 20th century writers to a changed and oftentimes degraded landscape as revealed in the work of such writers as Silko, Momaday, Welsh, and Ammons.  Finally, we will consider imaginative alternatives to this dissolution of landscape as expressed by writers in both traditions. (SPRG08) Christine Casson 

4.00 Credits
This course number will designate special offerings in Global Literature that take advantage of the special interests and expertise of faculty, for example South Asian Fiction, Latin American Short Fiction, Cuban Cinema and Literature, Magical Realism and Hispanic Caribbean. Fulfills the General Education Global Diversity requirement. May be repeated for credit if topics differ. (FALL07) William Donoghue  Flora Gonzalez 

4.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the many responses to British and American colonialism in the writings of colonized and once-colonized peoples from Ireland, South Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean.  Starting with two early 20th century texts, we will begin by considering the mechanisms of culture and the role it plays in manufacturing and maintaining the discourses of empire.  We will then consider how literary and filmic texts contest and challenge the legacies of colonialism through the production of alternative formations of identity and history. We will consider theorizations of diaspora, nation and nationalism, cultural ambivalence, subalterneity, transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and gendered and sexual identities. (SPRG08) Roy Kamada 

4.00 Credits
A survey of the dominant theoretical approaches to the study of culture. The course traces the main arguments found in them and helps students develop a sense of what it means to be a producer and a consumer of culture today. (FALL07) Maria Koundoura 

4 Credits
Special offerings in the novel, novella, and other modes of short fiction from various periods. (FALL07) Murray Schwartz 

4.00 Credits
Starts from the ground up, building the foundation of basic Spanish. The objectives of this course are to maximize the exposure to the Spanish language, and to gain basic Spanish skills in listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Within the context of lexical groups (e.g. the classroom, in a restaurant, etc.) students will learn basic structure and pronunciation. Students will take advantage of exposure to genuine Spanish-language resources in order to complete level-specific activities. (FALL07) Katherine Smith 

4.00 Credits
A continuation of LS 101, this course also incorporates reading skills and exposes students to a wider range of cultural materials. (SPRG08) Katherine Smith