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  • Stacks of computers and keyboards on shelves
    This course will serve as a humanities-based introduction to digital media structures such as the digital archive and reading/writing software that fundamentally affects what we ourselves are able to read/write; theories and methodologies for
  • A fountain pen resting on an open book
    This course studies modern American writers writing about their own lives. In addition, students will have a chance to do their own personal writing. We will consider not only writing that presents itself as autobiography or memoir but also fiction
  • Book shelf in the shape of the United States
    This course surveys the American novel. Covers the early development of the American novel, its rise in the 19th- and 20th-centuries, and its contemporary expressions. Students will be introduced to theories of the novel, the major movements and
  • Covered wagons crossing a plain
    This course considers the backdrop of the American West in literature, film, photography, and computer gaming. We will focus on a range of narratives and images depicting this wide swathe of American geography while simultaneously cultivating close
  • William Blake painting of a man in the sky with beams of light emerging from his hands
    This class will cover contexts & works of the visionary poet and artist William Blake. Expect field trips to CUAM and to Special Collections, some hands-on printmaking, and to do independent research for a final paper.
  • Painting of two men and a woman in a Victorian interior room
    In 1706 and 1707 the parliaments of England and Scotland ratified Acts of Union that gave birth to the Kingdom of Great Britain. Partly as a result, the Georgian era, named after the reigns of Georges I鈥揑V (1714鈥1830), was a period of staggering
  • Abstract Old English design
    Hw忙t!  English looked a lot different 1000 years ago. Although it sounds 鈥渙ld,鈥 the history of our language has everything to do with how we use English today. Old English and Anglo-Saxon culture are the bases for Tolkien鈥檚 Middle Earth, and
  • Illustration of an eagle on a rock
    People have been reading Chaucer鈥檚 poetry for over 600 years now. Such long-lasting popularity has in part to do with the great variety of his writings. There鈥檚 a lot to like (and dislike): deeply moving tragedies, racy stories, philosophical
  • Illustration of a man with a sword and a torch hovering above a city
    The seventeenth century in England was a maelstrom of revolution and historical change, from terrorism and civil war to the rise of the English empire and the beginnings of science. This tumultuous era produced some of the most daring and
  • An open book lying on a table
    This course will sample a variety of modes of theoretical discourse that have influenced contemporary literary and cultural studies. The emphasis in the course will be on breadth of coverage, and on comprehending the fundamental principles and
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