In-depth study of developments in the history of interpretation. Representative methods include hermeneutics, feminism, psychoanalysis and semiotics. FT, HWC, LIT

Critical reading of representative histories and comedies including a strong theoretical approach to the texts. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor for ENG 545. LIT, HWC, WI

Historical study of Hollywood film genres and their relation to dichotomous gender. Emphasis on genres of screwball comedy, maternal melodrama and film noir. Advanced readings in gender analysis and film studies scholarship. Representative directors include Pabst, Hawks, Sturgess, Rapper, Dmytryk, Ray, Hitchcock and Aldrich. ART, WS, WI

Study of Asian-American, African-American, Chicano and Native American writers. Authors may include Momaday, Erdrich, Anaya, Kingston, Okada, Baldwin and Hurston. CC, CD, LIT, WI

Detailed analysis and study of The Canterbury Tales. Includes close, critical readings of the original Middle English text and examination of the social, political and cultural climate in which Chaucer composed. FWC, LIT

New directions in poetry, drama, fiction and literary innovations in the context of international conflict, feminism, environmentalism, civil rights and gay rights. CD, LIT, WI

Critical reading of representative tragedies, romances and genres, including a thorough introduction to Shakespeare and his sonnets. Prerequisite: 300-level ENG or COM course. LIT, WI

Intensive, historical study of a major author or writer. Representative authors could include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, Dickens, Darwin, Freud, James, Cather, Joyce, Woolf and Morrison. Courses previously offered under this 270/370 rubric include Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, Willa Cather and Arthurian literature and film. LIT, WI

Writing-intensive study of classical, modern and postmodern literary genres. Emphasis on the development of genres, new approaches in genre criticism and the historical bases of literary production and reception. Individual genres studied vary over time but may include poetry, drama, melodrama, autobiography, gothic fiction and popular literature, as well as representation of such literature in film. Courses previously offered under this 270/370 rubric include African-American Literature, Asian-American Literature and Gay/Lesbian Literature. LIT, WI

In-depth study of a limited body of literature unified by author, theme or historical period. Emphasis on the relationship of literature to social and cultural history. Courses previously offered under this 270/370 rubric include: Asian-American Literature, Shakespeare’s Histories and 17th-Century Literature. LIT, WI