Course Descriptions 2009-2010 Catalog

Literature

Recommended: College-level reading ability.

LIT 115 Introduction To Literature: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Introduces students to fiction, poetry, and drama. Emphasizes active and responsive reading. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2.

LIT 201 Masterpieces Of Literature I: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Examines significant writings in world literature from the ancients through the Renaissance. Emphasizes careful readings and understanding of the works and their cultural backgrounds. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2.

LIT 202 Masterpieces Of Literature II: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Examines significant writings in world literature from the seventeenth century to the present. Emphasizes careful reading and understanding of the works and their cultural backgrounds. LIT 201 is NOT a prerequisite for LIT 202.This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2.

LIT 205 Ethnic Literature: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Focuses on significant texts by ethnic Americans including African-American, Native American, Latino, and Asian Americans. Emphasizes careful reading and understanding of the cultural and literary elements of the works. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2.

LIT 211 Survey of American Literature I: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Provides an overview of American literature from the Native American through the nineteenth century Romantics. It explores ideas, historical and social contexts, themes and literary characteristics of works in various genres by major writers. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2.

LIT 212 Survey of American Literature II: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Provides an overview of American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. It explores ideas, historical and social contexts, themes and literary characteristics of works in various genres by major writers. LIT 211 is NOT a prerequisite for LIT 212. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2.

LIT 220 Jewish-American Literature
3 Credits
Provides an overview of the major achievements in literature and film by American Jews in late-nineteenth through the early 21st century. We will proceed chronologically, focusing on the fiction of the immigrant experience, on the politicized literature of the 1930s and the 1940s, on the literature of the post-WWII era and its struggle to fashion an adequate response to the Holocaust, and on questions surrounding assimilation, acculturation, and identity politics.

LIT 221 Survey of British Literature I: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Provides an overview of British literature from the Anglo- Saxon period through the seventeenth century. It explores ideas, historical and social contexts, themes and literary characteristics of works in various genres by major writers. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2.

LIT 222 Survey of British Literature II: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Provides is an overview of British literature from the eighteenth century to the present. It explores ideas, historical and social contexts, themes and literary characteristics of works in various genres by major writers. LIT 221 is NOT a prerequisite for LIT 222. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2.

LIT 225 Introduction to Shakespeare: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Explores a selection of works by William Shakespeare. It focuses on careful reading and interpretation of the plays and poems, includes pertinent information about Elizabethan England, and examines formal as well as thematic elements of the selected works. This course is one of the Statewide Guaranteed Transfer courses. GT-AH2.

LIT 232 Gothic Literature
3 Credits
Provides an overview of Gothic and horror literature from the 1750’s to the present. The course emphasizes careful reading, analysis, interpretation, and understanding of the works and their cultural and historical backgrounds. Critical thinking, discussion, and writing about significant works of Gothic literature will be used as tools to develop discriminating reading skills for lifetime enjoyment of the genre.

LIT 235 Science Fiction
3 Credits
Examines the techniques and issues of science fiction through a close reading a variety of writers in the genre. We will investigate classic science fiction themes, such as intelligent machines, alien contact, post-apocalyptic futures, urbanization, and the city, as well as look at how science fiction reflects and debates society’s actions and fears of the future concerning science and technology.

LIT 245 Literature Of The American West
3 Credits
Examines works in various genres by writers of the American West. It investigates the dominant themes and social and historical backgrounds.

LIT 255 Children's Literature
3 Credits
Evaluates the criteria for selecting appropriate literature for children through exploration of genres, age levels, values taught through literature, and the literary and artistic quality of various texts.

LIT 257 Literature And Film
3 Credits
Examines the relationship between literature and motion pictures, emphasizing the technique and interpretive function of filmmakers.

LIT 259 Survey Of African-American Literature
3 Credits
Examines African American literature from 1750 to the present, exploring ideas, historical and social contexts, themes, and literary characteristics of works in various genres by major writers.

LIT 267 The Bible As Literature
3 Credits
Introduces the Bible as the textual centerpiece of Western literature. Students will encounter the various literary genres represented in Biblical texts, the process of canonization, ways in which the Bible has been read by its various interpretive communities, and some impacts of the Bible in such areas as law, poetry, fiction, psychology, ethics, and theology.

LIT 269 Popular Literature And Culture
3 Credits
Explores special interests in literature, such as Detective Fiction and Science Fiction.

LIT 275 The Novel Approach To Language Arts
3 Credits
Offers methods and techniques of developing a language arts unit based on an age/grade appropriate novel. Novels provide a means for exploration that involves critical and creative thinking and enrich the reading experiences of children. This instructional method revolves around student discussion groups that enable children to learn to listen and to share points of view, ideas, and feelings. Student activities are developed utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognition and are interchangeable with additional titles (novels) or basal reading series.

LIT 285 Independent Study
1-6 Variable Credits
Explores particular authors, topics, themes in-depth, such as Ibsen, Faulkner or Twain, or great fiction of the nineteenth century.
PREREQUISITE: Instructor’s permission.

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