Prerequisites: Two full-course equivalents of senior-level literature courses and consent of the Associate Dean (Student Affairs), Faculty of Humanities.
Topics may include: the notion of literature, the relation of literature to criticism, critical analysis and evaluation, the making of literary cannons, as well as formative approaches to modern theory such as feminism, formalism, Marxism, phenomenology, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, and structuralism.
The course will consider theories that discuss literature in relation to nature, beauty, the sublime, human spirit, society, ethics, politics, minorities, and the sexes.
An in-depth analysis of American literature from the colonial beginnings to the present, stressing the relationship between literature and the historical background of the nation, as well as the various genres associated with each period.
This course is a study of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the presnt, stressing the relationship between literature and the historical background of the British, as well as the various genres associated with each period.
A broad examination of literature often taught to children, and techniques useful in using literature as a teaching material with children through their early adolescent years.