2023 - 2024 Catalog

Quarters Offered: Fall

Covers the history, techniques, and art of film. Includes in-class film viewing and discussions with an emphasis on how to analyze and evaluate a variety of stylistic approaches. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Covers a cross-section of Shakespeare's major tragedies with attention to his life and times, production techniques, the plays' relevance today, and literary conventions such as structure, theme, and characterization. May include Hamlet, Macbeth, or other selections.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Covers a cross-section of Shakespeare's major comedies with attention to his life and times, production techniques, the plays' relevance today, and literary conventions such as structure, theme, and characterization. May include Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, or other selections.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Covers a cross-section of Shakespeare's major histories with attention to his life and times, production techniques, the plays' relevance today, and literary conventions such as structure, theme, and characterization. May include Julius Caesar, Henry IV, or other selections, and the critics.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Fall

Explores the development and variety of world literature from the ancient world to the present, focusing from the ancient world to the Renaissance.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Summer, Winter

Explores the development and variety of world literature from the ancient world to the present, focusing on Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism. Some sections may have a low-cost text book option.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 witha "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Explores the development and variety of world literature from the ancient world to the present, focusing on the Twentieth Century.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Offered as needed

Traces the development of American literature from the age of exploration to the present. Focus: from the age of exploration to the Civil War.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Winter

Traces the development of American literature from the age of exploration to the present. Focus: from the Civil War to 1910.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Traces the development of American literature from the age of exploration to the present. Focus: from 1910 to the present.Prerequisites: Pass WR 115 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.

Quarters Offered: Spring

Introduces the literature and critical perspectives of women writers, emphasizing British and North American Women writers of the twentieth century. Focuses on developing a critical framework for examining issues related to race, gender, identity, and representation in literary works by women.Prerequisites: Pass WR 121 with a "C-" or better, or suitable placement score.