13 courses with the subject LIT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
LIT 101Sickness and Storytelling
Stories, poems, plays, and even some Netflix series offer readers and viewers the rare opportunity to enter someone else’s story and empathize with different viewpoints than their own. In this course students will use literature like this as a starting point to dissect the various ways doctors, nurses,
LIT 103Superheroes, Sleuths, and Singing Souffles: Adaptation in Pop Culture
Iron Man, Sherlock Holmes, Belle: these popular characters, and many like them, would be lost to time and relegated to a dusty bookshelf in someone's basement - except that they were adapted. Our investigation of adaptations will push past the surface-level matter of fidelity and will explore the tensions between multiple
This course will examine the growth and the aesthetics of hip-hop as both a form of culture and a form of popular literature, and it will look carefully at the role of hip-hop in contemporary American cultural life. Students will read texts, listen to songs, and compose multiple brief essays that integrate these sources in order to exp
LIT 107A Sense of Place: Exploring Greater Boston through Literature & Media
This course offers a survey of literary works written by Greater Bostonians who have challenged social norms and changed our perspectives. Literary texts and other forms of historical evidence and experience will be used to consider multiple perspectives and to understand the complexit
LIT 202British Literature 1: Eighth Century to Nineteenth
Students read, interpret and discuss works of major British writers from Beowulf to the nineteenth century. Among the authors whose works may be studied are Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope, and Swift. Fulfills open, liberal arts, advanced literature, and humanities electives.
LIT 204British Literature 2: Nineteenth Century to
Students read, interpret, and discuss selected works of major British writers from the nineteenth century to the present. Among the authors whose works may be studied are Keats, Browning, Tennyson, Bronte, Woolf, and Yeats. Fulfills open, liberal arts, advanced literature, and humanities electives.
Students read, interpret, and discuss selected works of major writers of the world from the eighteenth century to the present. Among the authors whose works may be studied are Goethe, Chekhov, Voltaire, Ibsen, Lessing, Douglass, and Kafka. Fulfills open, liberal arts, advanced literature, and humanities electives.
LIT 214Lit of the American Peoples 1: American Indian Literature
Students read, interpret, and discuss selected modern writing and traditional oral works created by American Indians. The literary forms to be studied include tales, songs, oratory, and memoirs, as well as fiction and poetry by contemporary authors such as Momaday, Silko, Harjo, Welch, an
LIT 216Lit of the American Peoples 2: Latin American Literataure
Students will read, interpret, and discuss selected works of major Latin American writers of the twentieth century in English translations and bilingual texts. Among the authors whose works may be studied are Neruda, Valenzuela, Lispector, Cortazar, Borges, Garcia Marquez, and Vargas