29 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 100Popular Culture: Reading Culture as Text3
An introduction to analyzing and interpreting everyday cultural expressions within diverse social, historical, economic, and political contexts. Gen Ed Attribute: Humanities Distributive
A survey of African American writing from the Middle Passage through the first decade of the 20th century. Authors include Wheatley, Equiano, Douglass, Jacobs, Wells-Barnett, Du Bois, Washington, Chesnutt, Weldon Johnson, and others, with an emphasis on the historical contexts of slavery and Jim Crow and on the oral/vernacular roots of the black literary tradition. Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis 272
A survey of African American writing from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Authors include Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Baraka, Brooks, Sanchez, Morrison, Butler, and others, with an emphasis on the historical forces and social and cultural movements that have shaped black writing in the 20th and 21st centuries. Gen Ed Attribute: Diverse Communities, Writing Emphasis
Survey of black women writers of America. Examines themes and influences on American and African-American literary contexts. Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis
This course examines the courageous life and times of an American reformer and his influence on slavery, abolitionism, suffrage, and temperance movements in the development of America. Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis
Survey of representative Asian American authors from their earliest works at the turn of the twentieth century to contemporary works, examined in the context of the changing cultural, economic, and political experiences of Americans of Asian descent. Gen Ed Attribute: Diverse Communities . LIT 219. Literature for Young Children. 3 Credits. A critical study of the literature and culture for young children through age nine with an emphasis on literary analysis and the scholarly study of youth literature, including picture books, comics, early reader books, beginning chapter books, and other formats, such as children’s film, media, and culture. Gen Ed Attribute: Humanities Distributive Distance education offering may be available.
Focuses on the literature of Great Britain and on representative authors across historical eras, from the Old English period through the 20th century. Addresses a range of key cultural contexts and movements, while offering students an overview of important themes, genres, and cross-cultural comparisons.
A study of 19th-century attitudes toward social changes as expressed in art, architecture, literature, and nonfiction prose. Gen Ed Attribute: Interdisciplinary
A study of poetry espousing the feminist cause and exploring the feminist response. Techniques and attitudes of such poets as Plath, Sexton, Rich, Morgan, Wakoski, and Kumin. Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis
Topics in the American Novel. The American novel examined in relation to identity, including national identity, and transnational contexts. Topics and historical periods vary. Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis
American ethnic, racial, and national groups in American literature and the contributions of creative literary artists representing these cultures. Gen Ed Attribute: Diverse Communities, Writing Emphasis
Examines and analyzes the writings of Dr. King and their relationship to the themes he pursued and the leadership role he achieved. Gen Ed Attribute: Interdisciplinary
Reading, analysis, and discussion of selected plays and poems. Discussion of critical approaches to the plays and of the historical and intellectual climate of the times. Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis Distance education offering may be available. 2026-2027 CATALOG - UNDERGRADUATE
Reading, analysis, and discussion of selected comedies and nondramatic poems. Discussion of critical approaches to the works and of the historical and intellectual climate of the times. Thi course can be taken before LIT 335. Gen Ed Attribute: Writing Emphasis
Through analysis of videos, literary texts, essays, memes, and other cultural artifacts, this course explores the role of humor in society, combining multiple disciplinary approaches. Gen Ed Attribute: Interdisciplinary
A critical study of literature, including nonprint media, for young adults, focusing on helping prospective teachers develop familiarity with young adult literature and how it may be used in the middle school and high school classroom, stressing gender roles and multicultural issues. Distance education offering may be available.
