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Literature and Language Course Descriptions
LIT 2331 Masterpieces of World Literature
(3 semester hours) A study of selected themes in world literature. This
course will serve as a prerequisite for all upper-division literature
courses. (3-0) Y
LIT 2332 Studies in Mythology (3
semester hours) An introduction to mythology, with emphasis on the adaptability
of mythic themes and characters as reflected in literature from antiquity
through the contemporary period. (3-0) T
LIT 2341 Literary Analysis (3 semester
hours) A close reading of fiction, poetry, and drama. Emphasis will
be placed on the development of critical skills through the writing
of interpretive essays. This course is required of all Literary Studies
majors. (3-0) S
LIT 2V71 Independent Study in Literary Studies
(1-3 semester hours) Independent study under a faculty member’s
direction. May be repeated for credit (9 hours maximum). Prerequisite:
Permission of the instructor. ([1-3] 0) R
LIT 3300 Western Literary Tradition
(3 semester hours) Study of major themes of the classical tradition
in Western literature and their subsequent transformation. Readings
will include works by both classical authors and their literary heirs.
This course is required of all Literary Studies majors. Prerequisite:
Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) S
LIT 3304 Advanced Composition (3
semester hours) Rhetorical strategies for analytical, descriptive, and
research writing, with emphasis on grammar and style. Prerequisite:
RHET 1302. (3-0) Y
LIT 3308 Electronic Expression (3
semester hours) An introduction to forms of expression in and about
electronic environments (both textual and visual). Examines topics ranging
from writing for the WWW to e-mail, real-time technologies (Lingua MOO),
electronic journals, hypertext, and other digital forms of expression.
Prerequisite: RHET 1302 or equivalent). (3-0) T
LIT 3310 Studies in Epic and Romance
(3 semester hours) A comparative study of the two related genres, or
a study of one of them, with emphasis on their approaches to themes
such as heroism, love, or virtue. Readings may be drawn from classical,
medieval, and modern literature, and works may include The Iliad, Song
of Roland, and Don Quixote. May be repeated for credit as topics vary
(6 hours maximum). Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division literature
or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3311 The Literature of Fantasy and Science
Fiction (3 semester hours) The tradition of the fantastic narrative
from classical through modern literature. Consideration of fantasy and/or
science fiction as genres melding entertainment and speculation. Works
of fantasy may include The Golden Ass, Dracula, and One Hundred Years
of Solitude. Writers of science fiction may include Mary Shelley, Poe,
Hawthorne, Wells, Clarke, Heinlein, and LeGuin. May be repeated for
credit (6 hours maximum). Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division
literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3312 Studies in Prose Narrative
(3 semester hours) Studies in fiction, biography and autobiography,
essays, and travelogues. May examine such topics as the history of the
novel, spiritual autobiography, scientific biography, literary movements,
and the new journalism. May be repeated for credit (6 hours maximum).
Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301.
(3-0) Y
LIT 3313 Studies in Dramatic Literature
(3 semester hours) Studies in drama as a literary form. May include
such topics as Jacobean and Restoration drama, modern or contemporary
European drama, and 20th century American drama. May be repeated for
credit as topics vary (6 hours maximum). Prerequisite: Three hours of
lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3314 Studies in Poetry (3 semester
hours) Examines representative selections of poetry with particular
reference to techniques of diction, syntax, sound, and organization.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary (9 hours maximum). Prerequisite:
Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) Y
LIT 3315 Children’s Literature
(3 semester hours) An examination of the kinds of literature produced
for children and those concerning children as subjects. Works may include
fiction, nonfiction, fairy tales, and films from a variety of historical
periods as well as works of major authors. May be repeated for credit
as topics vary (6 hours maximum). Same as ED 3315. (3-0) T
LIT 3319 Periods in English Literature
(3 semester hours) Examines representative selections of literature
written during such periods as the Middle Ages, Renaissance, the 17th
century, the 18th century, or the early 19th century, or topics such
as the literature of the scientific revolution. May be repeated for
credit when literary periods vary (9 hours maximum). Prerequisite: Three
hours of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) Y
LIT 3320 Shakespeare (3 semester
hours) A study of selected works of Shakespeare including his sonnets,
comedies, poems, tragedies, and historical plays. May be repeated for
credit as topics vary (6 hours maximum). Prerequisite: Three hours of
lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3321 Modern British Literature
(3 semester hours) A study of major British authors since the mid 19th
century. Authors may include Browning, Tennyson, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf,
Yeats, and Eliot. Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division literature
or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3322 Early American Literature
(3 semester hours) A consideration of the beginnings of American literature
from Native American myths of origin and writings of Spanish, French
and English explorers through Washington Irving. We will read authors
such as Cabeza de Vaca, William Bradford, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards,
Phillis Wheately, Mary Rowlandson, Franklin, Olaudah Equiano, Paine,
Jefferson, Madison, and Chrles Brockden Brown. Prerequisite: Three hours
of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) Y
LIT 3323 The American Renaissance 1820-1865
(3 semester hours) A consideration of the development of American literature
particularly in New England. We will read authors such as Cooper, Emerson,
Fuller, Thoreau, William Apess, Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Longfellow,
Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Stowe, and works such as the
Cherokee Memorials and the political writings of figures such as Lincoln.
Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301.
(3-0) T
LIT 3324 American Realism and Naturalism
(3 semester hours) Considers the development of late 19th and early
20th century writers in a society increasingly urban, cosmopolitan,
and pluralistic. Writers may include Twain, Howells, James, Crane, Dreiser,
and Anderson. Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division literature
or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3325 American Modernism (3 semester
hours) Surveys the turbulent swings in American literature about 1910
to 1945. Considers such literary styles as imagism and social realism
and samples a diverse array of writers which may include Pound, Fitzgerald,
Hemingway, Faulkner, O’Neill, Dos Passos, and Wright. Prerequisite:
Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3326 The Literature of the American South
(3 semester hours) An examination of the major writers of this region
and their sometimes gothic vision of a decaying society. Authors may
include Warren, Welty, O’Connor, McCullers, Williams, Faulkner,
and Dickey. Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division literature or
HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3327 Mid-Twentieth Century American Literature
(3 semester hours) Surveys American literature from about 1945 to about
1980. Samples such writers as the confessional poets, the Beats, Updike,
Oates, Pynchon, Bellow, Mailer, and Morrison, and considers such topics
as black humor, feminism, the new journalism, and the self reflexive
novel. Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA
1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3328 Ethics in Literature (3
semester hours) Considers the perspective offered by literature on various
ethical questions, and the relation between literature and moral philosophy.
Topics may include existentialism, the environment, and religion and
literature. May be repeated for credit as topics vary (6 hours maximum).
(3-0) Y
LIT 3329 Ethnic American Literature
(3 semester hours) Surveys the literature of American ethnic or minority
cultures, considering both their specific cultural features and their
relation to the wider American canon. Traditions to be considered may
include African American literature (slave narratives, Harlem Renaissance,
contemporary fiction), Chicano literature, or Jewish American literature.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary (6 hours maximum). Prerequisite:
Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3330 Linguistics (3 semester
hours) The nature of language; general survey of the contributions of
linguistics to the fields of phonetics, phonemics, morphology, lexicology,
syntax, and semantics. Other topics of general interest in the field
will be covered, such as language change, dialects, writing systems
and their history, use and misuse of language, and the language of media,
advertising, and politics. Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division
literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) Y
LIT 3331 Contemporary American Literature
(3 semester hours) Surveys American writers, styles, and movements from
the past few decades. Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division literature
or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3334 Literature of Science (3
semester hours) Explores the interrelations between authors such as
Donne, Swift, Mary Shelly, Hardy, and Pynchon, and science, such as
astronomy, evolution, medicine, and chaos theory. May be repeated for
credit as topics vary (6 hours maximum). (3-0) T
LIT 3342 Literature of the Bible
(3 semester hours) A study of the various types of literature found
in selected books of the Old and New Testaments. Genres may include
epic, tragedy, lyric poetry, satire, biography, and parable. The course
may also include works which stem from biblical sources such as Milton’s
Paradise Lost, Byron’s Cain, and MacLeish’s J.B. Prerequisite:
Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3343 European Romanticism (3
semester hours) Readings in literary theory, fiction, drama, and lyric
poetry by the mid 18th century to mid 19th century romantic writers
of Italy, Germany, France, England, or Spain. Prerequisite: Three hours
of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3344 European Realism and Naturalism
(3 semester hours) A study of the naturalist movement of the late 19th
century in Europe. Consideration will be given to the philosophical,
social, and scientific backgrounds. Readings will include dramas and
novels. Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA
1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3380 Studies in Women’s Literature
(3 semester hours) An introduction to literature by women. Examines
selections of literature written from antiquity through the contemporary
period. Considers such literary forms as autobiography, journals, letters,
fiction, poetry, and drama. Samples a diverse array of women writers
and their relation to the wider Western canon. May be repeated for credit
as topics vary (6 hours maximum). Prerequisite: Three hours of lower-division
literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) T
LIT 3381 Topics in Western Literature
(3 semester hours) Subject matter will vary from semester to semester.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary (6 hours maximum). Prerequisite:
Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) R
LIT 3382 Topics in Non-Western Literature
(3 semester hours) Subject matter will vary from semester to semester.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary (6 hours maximum). Prerequisite:
Three hours of lower-division literature or HUMA 1301. (3-0) R
LIT 4329 Major Authors (3 semester
hours) Study of one or more major literary figures such as Chaucer,
Dante, Milton, Goethe, Blake, Balzac, Mann, Eliot, Austen, Dostoevsky,
and Tolstoy. May be repeated for credit as subjects vary (9 hours maximum).
Prerequisite: Upper-division standing or permission of the instructor.
(3-0) T
LIT 4330 Dante (3 semester hours)
A close reading of The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso)
in its historical, philosophical, religious, and poetic contexts, along
with related works by Dante and his contemporaries. Prerequisite: Upper-division
standing or permission of the instructor. (3-0) T
LIT 4344 The Modern Novel (3 semester
hours) A study of several landmark, late 19th and 20th century novels,
with attention to their literary, intellectual, and historical qualities.
Authors may include Joyce, Proust, Mann, García Marquez, or others.
May be repeated for credit as topics vary (6 hours maximum). Prerequisite:
Upper-division standing or permission of the instructor. (3-0) T
LIT 4346 Contemporary Literature
(3 semester hours) Major trends in contemporary world literature with
particular emphasis on the last ten years. Prerequisite: Upper-division
standing or permission of the instructor. (3-0) T
LIT 4348 Topics in Literary Studies
(3 semester hours) Subject matter will vary from semester to semester.
May be repeated for credit (9 hours maximum). Prerequisite: Upper-division
standing or permission of the instructor. (3-0) R
LIT 4399 Senior Honors in Literary Studies
(3 semester hours) Intended for students conducting independent research
for honors theses or projects. Prerequisite: Signature of instructor
on the proposed project outline. (3-0) R
LIT 4V71 Independent Study in Literary Studies
(1-3 semester hours) Independent study under a faculty member’s
direction. May be repeated for credit (9 hours maximum). Prerequisite:
Permission of the instructor required. ([1-3] 0) R
Interdisciplinary Studies Course Applicable to the Major in Literary
Studies
ISAH 4V88 Special Interdisciplinary Topics in Arts and Humanities,
as approved by the instructor and Associate Dean. R
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