17 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.
Completion of FDR:FW requirement FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 A careful reading of the depiction of the restless soul in Augustine’s Confessions is followed by study of fictional, philosophical, religious, and/or scientific literature. Students reflect on the state of the soul in a world made of selves or the fate of the self in a soulless world … and whether there might be other options
LIT 2100Representations of Women, Gender and Sexuality in World Literature3
Completion of FDR:FW requirement FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 In this course, we read some of the most famous works of Russian 20th and 21st centuries writers such as Vladimir Nabokov (the author of “Lolita”) and Svetlana Alexievich (the recent Noble Prize winner) among others. We will address issues like political violence, the wars led by USSR, the art of propaganda, and the various forms of resistance against powerful authoritarian regimes.
LIT 2108Pre-Modern Chinese Literature in Translation3
Completion of FDR:FW requirement FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 In this course, we read some of the most famous Russian writers of the 19 century– Lev Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, and Ivan Turgenev—with a view to exploring such issues as the rise of Russian nationalism; the moral and economic issues surrounding serfdom (the Russian form of slavery), Russian feminism, 19th century family values, and the struggle between the democratic and imperial visions of society.
Completion of FDR:FW requirement FDR: Literature Distribution (HL) Credits: 3 Readings in the works of 20th-century Jewish authors, studied as literary responses to the historical and religious crises of modern Jewish life in Europe, the United States, and Israel.
LIT 2905Special Topics in Literature in Translation3-4
Subject
LIT
Credits (min)
3
Credits (max)
4
Credit unit
Credits
Type
course
Repeatable
May be repeated for degree credit if the topics are different.
