6 courses with the subject LITR, 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.
LITR 101Composition and Literature3
Composition and Literature, which students usually take during plebe year, emphasizes composition, with writing assignments and a research paper designed to help students practice their rhetorical skills and aspects of writing such as unity, organization and coherence, development, and precise, emphatic wording and usage. The course also emphasizes reading, discussion, and critical analysis of works of literature and/or essays and film, fostering the skills of close reading and critical thinking that are springboards to good writing.
A survey of the greatest writing about the sea, Homer and “The Seafarer,” through Melville and Conrad, to Patrick O’Brian and Jimmy Buffett. Students share and write stories of their own sea year adventures. This is an elective course.
Literature focuses on the study of literature in various genres and provides students with the opportunity to strengthen their reading, writing, and oral communication skills, as well as improve analysis, problem-solving, and creative thinking. This course teaches students to comprehend and analyze the worlds that words create, as well as reflect on themselves as readers. This is a required undergraduate course designed to meet the general education requirements for a Bachelor of Science degree and a requirement of the Department of the Navy for newly commissioned officers.
The study of works and textual and performance interpretation of Shakespeare’s drama, including analysis of his histories, tragedies, comedies, and romances. The selection includes Richard III, Henry IV (Part I), The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Tempest. This is an elective.
This course introduces cinema as an international art form, providing basic concepts, vocabulary, and examples of films and directors to enable students to make educated judgments about the cross-cultural themes, values, and pleasures of the film. This is an elective course.
This course will explore the use of the literary text as a means of transmitting, explicating, and understanding moral values. Nearly all societies have used stories to promote ethical understanding. Moral philosophers regularly use anecdote and example to clarity points about ethics, and many writers of fiction have seen their work as having a vital moral function. Assigned readings will include works by novelists Joseph Conrad and E.M. Forster and phi losopher Martha Nussbaum. This is an elective course.
