Description: This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMAN only. You must also register for the accompanying ENVS1702.These courses address the relationship between humans and their environment. Exploring both imaginative and scientific approaches to ecology, we will study how humans have exploited nature, but also how the environment is inextricable from the human experience. Through case studies from ecological literature and conservation science, we will develop skills in identifying environmental degradation, crafting equitable solutions, and expressing ourselves in writing and speech. These courses take a comparative approach to analyzing the history and tradition of diverse narratives of environmental exploitation and conservation through readings from South Asia, Small Island Nations, the Americas, West Africa, and others.
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Location and Time: By Arrangement
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Used Seats: 19 / Total Seats: 19
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Location and Time: Carney Hall 302 TuTh 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 19 / Total Seats: 19
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 286S TuTh 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 19 / Total Seats: 19
Description: This is a continuing course in modern Irish for those with a basic knowledge of the language. We’ll emphasize the ability to read contemporary literature in various genres. Texts from a variety of authors and historical periods allow students to taste different writing styles: contemporary fiction, journalism, literary criticism, historical and cultural texts, while we enjoy Irish-language short films and videos.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 494S TuTh 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 2 / Total Seats: 10
Description: The goals of the course are close reading of poetry, developing the student's ability to ask questions which open poems to analysis, and writing lucid interpretative papers.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 121N TuTh 09:00AM-10:15AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 16
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 121N MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 16
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 203S TuTh 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 16
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 113S TuTh 03:00PM-04:15PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 16 / Total Seats: 16
Description: This course introduces students to questions that they might bring to the study of narrative works—primarily novels, tales, and non-fictional narratives, though it may also include drama, film, and narrative poems. It aims to introduce the various critical frames through which we construct interpretations. As part of the process of reading, students will be introduced to common critical terms; narrative genres, conventions, and discourses; the construction of the character and the ways of representing consciousness; and the ordering of narrative time. The course will also expose the student to the implications of taking critical positions.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 145N MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 19 / Total Seats: 18
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 361S TuTh 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 17 / Total Seats: 18
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 131N TuTh 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 17 / Total Seats: 18
Description: Students need not take these courses in chronological order. Fulfills the pre-1900 requirement. American Literary History 1 follows the development of American literary history from the landing of the Mayflower to the tumultuous decade of the 1850s, moving from such early writers as Bradstreet, Rowlandson and Taylor through such writers of the Revolution and Early Republic as Equiano, Franklin, and Rowson to such antebellum writers as Child, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Poe, Douglass, Whitman, and Melville. Course assignments include regular participation in class discussions, mid-semester and final examinations, and either one ten-page or two five-page essay(s). Students considering careers in secondary English education will be given the option of writing about approaches to teaching course texts.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 115N TuTh 10:30AM-11:45AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 21 / Total Seats: 30
Description: Fulfills the pre-1700 requirement. Britain, Ireland, and their archipelago were home to an exceptionally vibrant early literary tradition spanning English, French, Irish, Latin, Norse, and other languages. Writing from these islands connected rulers and rebels, merchants and monks, brewers and bureaucrats. This course is a survey of British literature (well question the term) from the beginnings to 1700. Most texts are in English; some are read in translation. The course focuses on connections between literature, power, and the formation of literary canons. The survey covers all major genres of early literature from the archipelago. Texts and authors include Beowulf, Marie de France, Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 215N MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 31 / Total Seats: 30
Description: The Caribbean, merely viewed through the lens of colonial history, often does not reflect the diversity and complexity of the region. From a colonial perspective, therefore, the Caribbean is both "known" and "unknown." Our work for this course compares and contrasts versions of the region by examining colonial histories and current literary traditions. We will pay particular attention to the ways oppositional cultures and identifies manifest in Caribbean literature. Themes of this course include: colonialism, History/histories, gender, geography ation, sexuality, class, and culture. Varied texts and media will assist in our interpretations of the Caribbean and its diaspora.
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Location and Time: 245 Beacon Street Room 204 TuTh 03:00PM-04:15PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 0 / Total Seats: 0
Description: How can a tiny island and its diaspora have so shaped the literature, film, music, art, science, and politics of the world? From charming backwater to center of technology, from bastion of Catholicism to gay marriage, through peace and conflict, Irishness (and Irish-Americanness) is an ever-unstable proposition. Exploring through categories such as gender, sexuality, and ethnicity its manifold mutations, this course will investigate the troubled stream of Irish history and culture from Jonathan Swift to Stephen Colbert, from W.B. Yeats to Riverdance, from JFK to U2, from Celtic Christianity to Celtic Tiger.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 201N TuTh 12:00 Noon-01:15PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 29 / Total Seats: 30
Description: This course will use literature as a springboard to consider the psychological, social, ethical, and experiential dimensions of health and illness. In addition to exploring questions of physical and mental health, we will address topics including disability, aging, pregnancy, trauma, obesity, poverty, and care giving. Through the analysis of novels, poems, short stories and non-fiction, we will consider the way that bodily experiences, material conditions and cultural constructions of normalcy shape our understanding of identity in sickness and in health. A series of student presentations will also allow us to analyze representations of illness and medicine in film, television, and popular culture.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 103N TuTh 01:30PM-02:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 25 / Total Seats: 25
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 115S TuTh 04:30PM-05:45PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 25 / Total Seats: 25
Description: An introductory course in which students will write both poetry and short fiction and read published examples of each. We will experiment with the formal possibilities of the two genres and look at what links and separates them. The course is workshop-based, with an emphasis on steady production and revision. Through exercises and/or open and directed writing assignments, students will produce a portfolio of short fiction and poetry.
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S Th 09:00AM-11:25AM
Time Category: Morning
Used Seats: 14 / Total Seats: 15
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S Tu 11:30AM-01:50PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 14 / Total Seats: 15
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 207S W 11:30AM-01:55PM
Time Category: Afternoon
Used Seats: 15 / Total Seats: 15
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Location and Time: Stokes Hall 476S M 02:00PM-04:25PM
Time Category: Evening
Used Seats: 12 / Total Seats: 15