LTWR 101Personal Narrative
Introduces the craft of writing creative nonfiction, with a focus on the personal essay. Includes readings
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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LTWR
69 courses with the subject LTWR, 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.
LTWR 102Flash Nonfiction
Introduces the craft of writing flash nonfiction, with a focus on revision. Includes readings of
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- 2026-2027
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LTWR 103Public Humanities Writing
Provides an opportunity to apply various critical lenses developed in the humanities to modes of
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 107Creative Writing: Fiction
Introduces the craft of writing the short story. Reading of some classic and contemporary short fiction, and discussion of student drafts in a s
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 108Contemplative Writing for Self-Knowledge
Introduces the practice of contemplative writing, with a focus on private writing and freewriting. Include
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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LTWR 109Creative Writing: Poetry
Targets the eager and curious writer of poems seeking structure, feedback, and models of excellence in a workshop setting. Assumes that those wh
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 110Invitation to Literature
Teaches the art and skill of reading fiction, poetry, and plays for pleasure and understanding. De
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- 2026-2027
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LTWR 111Greek Mythology and Religion
Examines myths about the principle gods, goddesses, and heroes of ancient Greece, and the influence of Greek mythology on later literature, lang
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 112Poetry and Passion in the Bible
Closely studies the Old and New Testaments, with attention to the problem of strategies of interpr
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 121Love, Death, and Fantasy in Shakespeare's Plays
Analyzes major plays with commentary on the theater of Shakespeare's London. Includes films and attendance at live performances of Shakespeare's
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 124Narrative & Medicine
A study of the literary skills integral to healing and to medicine--radical listening, the noting of patterns in a story, the understanding of
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 126Magic, Fantasy, and the Origins of Literature
Studies topics including Milton, magic and fantasy in the Renaissance, and literary depictions of love in the 16th century.
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- 2026-2027
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LTWR 138Invitation to Poetry
Offers students the opportunity to read and discuss poetry in English from many time periods and traditions. Seminar discussions and informal wr
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 161The Making of America: U.S. Literature before 1900
Studies American literature from early encounters between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans to the decades after the Civil Wa
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 168Crime Literature
Starting with the birth of detective fiction and ending with a recent novel about a policeman's murder of a black man, this course traces cultur
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 170Introduction to 21st Century Global Literature
This course examines how global fiction allows unique insight into pressing geopolitical issues. Through looking
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 176African American Fiction
Analyzes repeated themes and rhetorical patterns found in literature by African American authors. Investigates how social experiences
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 178Intersectional Identities in US Literature
Pays close attention to the differences and commonalities in the stories of people who are frequently excluded from the dominant narratives of t
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 179Human Rights and Global Literature
Studies texts of law, literature, and cinema arising out of acts of genocide and political violence in the tw
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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LTWR 184Performance and Politics on the Global Stage
Studies works of drama from the 17th through 21st centuries to consider the relationship between politics and performance across
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 193Gender and Power in Literature
Introduces students to literature about gender and power, and places writings about gender in their appropriate cultu
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 195Art of Film
Teaches students to analyze a film, gain an understanding of cinematic terminology that includes narrative, color, sound, light, edit
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 199Approaches to Literature
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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LTWR 200How To Be a Critic
The second half of the required introduction to the Literature major, this course builds on LTWR 199 and considers h
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 201Environmentalist Writing
How can we rethink the relationship between humans and the natural world? Faced with planetary extinction, we mu
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 202Reclaiming Home
This Integrative Learning course combines the frequent practice of Creative Writing with concepts and texts o
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 205Non-Fiction Workshop
A thematically focused workshop that allows students to develop their creative non-fiction beyond the introductory level. Frequent writing and r
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 207Fiction Workshop
Continued work on the art of writing the short story, building on experience gained in LTWR 107. Frequent writing and reflection on writing; ext
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 209Poetry Workshop
For students who have had some prior instruction in writing poetry and some workshop experience. Workshops
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 210How To Be a Writer
Examines a wide range of theoretical essays and books, most by poets and creative writers whose theories of literary art dev
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 212Queer Literature and Film
Traces the history of LGBTQ / queer identity as expressed through popular literature and film from the 20th century to the present. T
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 213Poetry of Displacement
Explores global responses to conflict-induced displacement through poetry. Analyzes diverse works reflecting experiences of s
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 214The Invented Self in 20th and 21st Century U.S. Fiction
Uses novels to examine both the literary and societal implications of the idea of self-fashioning, with an eye to tracing literary and cultural
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 221The Critical Lens: Introduction to Film and Media Theory
Critical Lens introduces students to key authors, debates, texts, and practices in film and media theory. We
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 223New Literary Topics
Offers focused study of a particular theme or tradition in literature.
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 229Resist! Political Resistance in Literature and Film
Explores how writers, filmmakers, activists, and thinkers have engaged in acts of political resista
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 230Postcolonial Film
Surveys post-colonial film in connection with postcolonial theory to consider how cinema addresses cultural and political issues rele
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 235Identity and Race in 19th Century American Literature
Focuses upon the works of major American writers and analyzes how they deploy race in the literary process of imagining and representing America
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 241Contemporary Black Women Writers
How do novels by contemporary African American and Black British women writers encourage us to rethink our understandings of racial identity? This course examines the literary devices and formal innovations employed by Black women writers to represent the lives of black characters and black people more broa
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 250Masterpieces of Traditional Chinese Literature
Using English-language translations, this course surveys the most famous works of poetry and fiction ever produced in China that have come to be recog
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 254The Rise of the Novel: English Literature Before 1900
Studies four or five English novelists such as Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Charles Dick
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 265Modern(ist) Women
Considers the innovations of the modernist novel in English, from the end of the Victorian era through High Moder
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 266Piratical Stories
This course investigates the tropes of piratical literature in ballads, plays, short stories, and novels. As we
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 304The Romantic Rebel
Begins with John Milton's Paradise Lost, and then examines works by a wide variety of Romantic poets including William Blake, William
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 308The Global Novel
Studies the rise of the so-called “global novel” in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, considering issues of anti-colonial res
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 310Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
Serves as an advanced-level workshop for creative writers seeking a space in which to concentrate on craft and participate
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 312Major American Writers
Studies major United States novelists with attention to current scholarly discussions of their works
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 316Native American Literature
Considers sermons, memoirs, poetry, short stories, essays, and novels by indigenous North American writers over the centuries from f
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 320American Women Poets
Traces the long tradition of women poets in the United States, with a particular focus on Massachusetts writers. Studies Emily Dickin
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 323Special Topics in Literature
Offers an intensive study of a particular genre of literature.
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 327Psychoanalysis, Race and Sexuality
Explores psychoanalytic theories of race and sexuality through application to literature, film and culture. Focuses on Sigmund Freud,
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 350Independent Study
Consent of instructor required.
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 354Studies in Film: Melodrama
Identifies key visual and narrative conventions for the melodrama and examines why melodrama is a favored mode for
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 355Thesis
Consent of department required. Typically follows LTWR-350. Taken in the semester in which
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 380Fieldwork
Consent of department required.
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 390Advanced Seminar in Literature and Writing
A structured workshop with some common readings and many opportunities for independent work. Offers a framework for collaborati
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 398Feminist Media Studies
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 450Independent Study
Course Catalog 2023-2024 Graduate Course Catalog 2023-2024 Undergraduate Course Catalog 2022-2023 Graduate Course Catalog 2022-2023 Undergraduate Course Catalog 2021-2022 Graduate Course Catalog 2021-2022 Undergraduate Course Catalog 2020-2021 Graduate Course Catalog 2020-2021 Undergraduate Course Catalog Archived Catalogs
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 504The Romantic Rebel
Begins with John Milton's Paradise Lost and then examines works by a wide variety of Romantic poets, includ
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- LTWR
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 508The Global Novel
Studies the rise of the so-called “global novel” in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, considering issues of anti-colonial resista
- Subject
- LTWR
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 510Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
Serves as an advanced-level workshop for creative writers seeking a space in which to concentrate on craft and partic
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- LTWR
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 512Three American Writers
Studies three major United States novelists with attention to current scholarly discussions of their works. Students read multiple works
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 516Native American Literature
Considers sermons, memoirs, poetry, short stories, essays, and novels by indigenous North American w
- Subject
- LTWR
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 520American Women Poets
Traces the long tradition of women poets in the United States, with a particular focus on Massachusetts writers. Studies Emily Dickinson
- Subject
- LTWR
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 523Special Topics in Literature
Offers an intensive study of a particular genre of literature.
- Subject
- LTWR
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 527Psychoanalysis, Race, and Sexuality
Explores psychoanalytic theories of race and sexuality through application to literature, film and culture. Focuses on Sigmund Freud, Jac
- Subject
- LTWR
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 554Studies in Film: Melodrama
Identifies key visual and narrative conventions for the melodrama and examines why melodrama is a favored mode for dialoguing with issues of class, race, sexuality, and sexual orienta
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- LTWR
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 590Advanced Seminar in Literature and Writing
Offers a framework for advanced independent work in literary studies. Anchored in a common topic that changes each year. Texts include s
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
LTWR 598Feminist Media Studies
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- LTWR
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- 2026-2027
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- simmons.smartcatalogiq.com
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