COURSES OF STUDY
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EH 214 American Historical Fiction (1)
A study of American historical fiction from the early 1800s to today
that focuses on the relationship between fiction and history within
the genre. This course introduces students to issues of narrative and
historiography while examining how novels and short stories depict
different historical periods. Students read and write critically about the
genre. They also research and compose an original piece of historical
fiction.
EH 215 Introduction to Drama (1)
An introduction to dramatic literature from the Greeks to the present.
EH 220 Literature and the Social Experience (1)
An introduction to the social interpretation of literature through study
of a faculty-selected topic, focusing on a cultural movement, a social
issue, or the perspective of a social group. The course can be taken only
once for credit. Prerequisite: EH 102 or 208.
EH 225 Labyrinths and Solitude: Latin American Fiction in Translation (1)
An introduction to Latin American fiction covering a selection of
novels and short fiction. Students will learn basic skills of literary
interpretation and study cultures of Latin America.
EH 226 The Tranquillized Fifties: American 1950s Literature and Culture (1)
An introduction to the culture and concerns of 1950s postwar America
through study of the decade’s literature. This course examines poetry,
prose, and drama which foregrounds the flux of personal, public, and
national identity during a decade often assumed calm and tranquil.
Students will investigate shifting attitudes toward racial and gender
roles, newly emergent political ideologies, and other challenges to
fifties’ conformity. Revealing individual, cultural, and social change, we
will study the literary and cultural movements captured in the work of
J.D. Salinger, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, Ralph Ellison, Tennessee
Williams, Jack Kerouac, and Sylvia Plath.
EH 227 From Suffrage to Cyborgs: Twentieth-Century Feminism(s) and
the Novel (1)
An introduction to the social interpretation of twentieth-century
American novels through the study of feminism. This course traces a
lineage of first and second wave American feminisms by coupling our
exploration of novels by, for, and about women with contemporaneous
theoretical and historical texts. By pairing famous literary works by Kate
Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston, Sylvia Plath, and Maxine Hong Kingston
with feminist texts by John Stuart Mill, Sojourner Truth, Simone de
Beauvoir and Betty Friedan we will investigate the relationship between
literature and social movements (a Leadership Studies designated
course).
