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ACADEMIC PROGRAMS
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EH 209 Teaching and Tutoring Writing (½)
Introduces methods for effective tutoring and teaching of writing. Required for students
who serve as tutors in the Writing Center. Instructor consent required.
EH 210 Introduction to Fiction (1)
An introduction to the short story, in American, British, and world literature, with some
attention to longer fiction. Fall, Spring.
EH 212 Alternate Worlds: Reading Science Fiction (1)
Develops the skills of reading and interpreting science fiction texts through the close
examination of science fiction stories, the comparison of science fiction to other genres,
and the consideration of theoretical approaches to reading. The course emphasizes the
ability to think critically, including the ability to articulate and examine assumptions and
to imagine alternatives.
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 EH
208.
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 The Story of Freedom: The Writers Who Helped End Slavery (1)
An interdisciplinary investigation of the history and literature of America’s antislavery
movement from the colonial period to 1865. At its core, the course examines the
transformation of attitudes toward the legitimacy of un-free labor. (Also listed as HI 227.)
EH 228 Ourselves and Others: Gender, Race, and Class in Literature (1)
An introduction to the study of literature through reading, discussion, and community
service. Students examine works of fiction, poetry, and drama that wrestle with
differences of gender, race, and socioeconomic class that have the capacity to divide us as
well as enrich our perspectives. Fifteen hours of community service tutoring at local
after-school programs and providing meals and conversation to women and children at a