Fulfills a major core requirement. Launch focusing on later British literature covering the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods–great foundation for…
Plenty of us feel like we’re living in the end times – but why do some of us feel like…
Scan any bookstore shelf and you’d think the human psyche is hanging on by a thread. From fighting anxiety to…
This course focuses on the creative processes involved in writing poetry. We will look at poets’ revisions of their work,…
When medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman writes that “illness has meaning,” he reminds us that the human experience of being sick…
Pride and Prejudice, often cited as the best-loved novel in English, is the focus of this semester’s course in Austen…
In this course students will explore the relationship between American novels and free speech. Paying particular attention to the ideas…
In this class we will investigate the history of human rights from the perspective of literature. We will explore how…
What will our world look like in ten years? Fifty? One hundred? Will the future be a utopian paradise or…
William Blake, the visionary poet, artist and printmaker of the British Romantic period, has had enormous influence on modern art…