5 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 1INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE -
LIT 1 introduces the major types of literary expression as well as recurrent themes and motifs, conventions, concerns, and values central to literature and to the understanding of literary texts and contexts. Students read from and respond extensively to literary materials that reflect diversity in genre, historical period, and cultural expression. In this endeavor students will learn how literature might embody and generate meaning, reflect and create culture and engage the human imagination. C-ID: ENGL 120. NR
This course offers a general introduction to and survey of the history of literature written in the British Isles from the pre-Norman period to the American Revolution. Emphasis is placed on major (influential or otherwise significant) texts and authors; intellectual and historical contexts within which literary works arose; the development of literary traditions, conventions, and genres; and theemergence of a “national” literature. C-ID: ENGL 160. NR
Eligibility for college-level composition (C-ID ENGL 100) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method
LIT 21BRITISH LITERATURE FROM BLAKE TO THE PRESENT -
This course examines the major genres, issues, and themes central to the study of British literature from the rise of English Romanticism to late modern and contemporary British authors and texts. Students study Romanticism, Victorian literature, Modernism, post-war disillusion, and British literary culture since the Second World War, and examine the social and cultural contexts that shape the development and characteristics of these literary movements. C-ID: ENGL 165. NR
Eligibility for college-level composition (C-ID ENGL 100) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
LIT 22AMERICAN LITERATURE THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR -
This course examines the genesis of American literary traditions and what, in the views of diverse observers, it meant to be an American. The course surveys American literature from the narratives of exploration and encounter through the captivity narratives and sermons of the Colonial period; covers the political treatises and self-examination of the Enlightenment and Federalist period; and culminates in the Romanticism of the mid-nineteenth century with consideration of dominant and alternative voices. C-ID: ENGL 130. NR
Eligibility for college-level composition (C-ID ENGL 100) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
LIT 23AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE THE CIVIL WAR -
Surveys the rich cultural diversity of American literature from the Civil War through the present. Literary selections represent the distinctively American treatment of such genres as tales, slave narratives, essays, drama, poetry, short fiction, and novels. The course examines the textual features and thematic concerns of the literature of Realism, Naturalism, Regionalism, Modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Post-war period, Post-modernism, and the Contemporary period, and considers the historical and intellectual influences on the development of this literature. The course also addresses varieties of critical approaches to the literature, and explores forces at work in the construction of the American canon. C-ID: ENGL 135. NR
