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Courses

As a reminder, all courses have been renumbered beginning with the Fall 2018 semester. Click on Course Number Look-up Tool.
 
  
  

  • JOUR 338 Advanced Editing

    In this course, students learn advanced skills necessary for editing magazines and other publications.  Students learn to shape stories for specific audiences and platforms, and apply editing, copy editing, fact-checking and audience engagement strategies.

     

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-3210
    Prerequisites JOUR 108 Copy Editing  and JOUR 205 Reporting II 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 350 Digital Storytelling

    The Digital Storytelling course offers intensive hands-on training in multimedia news gathering and production, as well as distribution through digital channels, for a range of journalism story forms, including audio, video, photo essays, online writing, social networking, and audio slideshows. Equipment is required for this course. Consult the Department website.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-3231
    Prerequisites JOUR 105 Reporting I  or JOUR 106 College News Workshop 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 351 Multimedia Photo Essay

    In this project-based class, students will be introduced to the basic techniques necessary for the production of narrative picture stories for multimedia online presentations. We will analyze classic photo essays and examine how the techniques used in creating them–opening pictures, transitions, point pictures, closures, expressive camera angles and lighting–apply to modern multi-media applications. Linear and thematic organization of photo essays will be discussed. Students will research, plan, photograph and edit stories incorporating audio, video and still pictures.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly PHOT 361
    Prerequisites PHOT 260 Introduction to Photojournalism  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 352 Writing & Reporting TV News

    Course builds on skills taught in Broadcast News Writing by focusing on development and writing of reporter-news packages as well as news producing. Some stories written in this class are produced in Creating the Television News Package.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-3310
    Prerequisites JOUR 234 Broadcast News Writing  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 360A Advanced Topics in Journalism:

    This is an advanced topics course in Journalism for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly JOUR 360
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR), Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 360B Advanced Topics in Journalism:

    This is an advanced topics course in Journalism for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.

    Repeatable: Y
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR), Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 360C Advanced Topics in Journalism:

    This is an advanced topics course in Journalism for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.

    Repeatable: Y
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR), Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 360D Advanced Topics in Journalism:

    This is an advanced topics course in Journalism for the Communication Department. Topics will vary.

    Repeatable: Y
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR), Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 361A Advanced Topics in Broadcast Journalism:

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly JOUR 361
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6



  

  • JOUR 361B Advanced Topics in Broadcast Journalism:

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6



  

  • JOUR 361C Advanced Topics in Broadcast Journalism:

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6



  

  • JOUR 361D Advanced Topics in Broadcast Journalism:

    This repeatable course consists of rotating subjects of interest.

    Repeatable: Y
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6



  

  • JOUR 363 Fashion Journalism

    Students study fashion history, terminology and business and craft news, review and trend stories covering fashion shows, boutiques and designers.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-3542
    Prerequisites JOUR 205 Reporting II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 405 Covering Politics:

    Students will learn the fundamentals of covering political campaigns by reporting on local, state and/or presidential races. Students will produce content on deadline and more enterprising work in a variety of formats. Course is open to non-majors with an interest in politics.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-4120
    Prerequisites JOUR 105 Reporting I  or JOUR 106 College News Workshop  
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 440 Launching a Journalism Startup

    Knowing how to think like an entrepreneur is a crucial skill for journalists today. This class will teach students how to conceive of a sustainable journalistic business that meets the practical informational needs of a specific audience. Students will learn about methods for funding new businesses, understand how journalism businesses run and prepare to pitch their ideas to multimedia platform publishers.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4535
    Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 450 Journalism Short Documentary

    Journalism Short Documentary offers intensive, hands-on training in video storytelling and production. Students learn to produce in-depth “mini-doc” stories focusing on newsworthy trends and issues using journalistic best practices and ethics. 

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-4840
    Prerequisites JOUR 350 Digital Storytelling  or PHOT 360 Documentary Methods  or CINE 266 Documentary Storytelling 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 463 Global Multimedia

    This course is a practical guide to being a foreign correspondent and to covering international issues in the United States, focusing on immigrant communities in Chicago to understand and report issues of global importance. Students will follow and analyze breaking news and in-depth reporting from around the world. This is a multimedia and social media course that gives students the opportunity to choose from multiple, emerging platforms to tell their stories.

     

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-4660 
    Requirements Senior standing (SR)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 464 Solutions Journalism

    Solutions journalism provides practical insight into how contemporary problems can be addressed. It focuses on effectiveness and provides evidence through in-depth explorations of the people, programs and institutions responding to problems. Students in this upper-level journalism course conduct extensive research as well as in-person interviews, and report and write a publishable story with intellectual depth, factual accuracy and compelling prose.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly JOUR 364
    Prerequisites JOUR 205 Reporting II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 467 Journalism Documentary Lab

    Students will work as a team to produce a high production value short journalistic documentary. Students collaborate with colleagues as editors and producers, assuming various roles in production and post-production. Students will also learn to write a journalistic documentary treatment and to establish a marketing and engagement plan for distribution.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-4877
    Prerequisites JOUR 450 Journalism Short Documentary  or CINE 477 Documentary Projects  or TELE 372 Documentary Series for Television 
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  

  • JOUR 482 Practicum Television News: Metro Minutes

    Metro Minutes is a television news program that is reported, anchored and produced by students. All facets of planning and executing a local news program are taught. Students are involved in story conception and assignment, research, interviewing, shooting, crafting reporter packages, editing, anchoring, and producing both the show segments and the overall program. Students can focus on reporting or producing during the semester, or they can work on both skills.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-4601B
    Prerequisites JOUR 337 Creating the TV News Package  and JOUR 352 Writing & Reporting TV News  
    Minimum Credits 4 Maximum Credits 4



  

  • JOUR 484 College Magazine Workshop

    In this fast-paced, hands-on course, students in the Journalism and Design programs work together to create a glossy, four-color magazine and a companion website in a single semester. Students redesign the publication, write and edit all stories, create or assign all photos and illustrations, design the pages, sell the advertisements, copy edit, fact check and proofread all pages; and send the magazine out the printer. They also create a website with unique content.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-4536
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 6 Maximum Credits 6



  

  • JOUR 495 Directed Study: Journalism

    Directed Studies are appropriate for students who wish to explore a subject beyond what is possible in regular courses, or for students who wish to engage in a subject or activity not otherwise offered that semester by the College. Directed Studies involve close collaboration with a faculty advisor who will assist in development and design of the project, oversee its progress, evaluate the final results, and submit a grade.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-3599
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6



  

  • JOUR 496 Independent Project: Journalism

    Course requires that the student, with approval of a supervising faculty member, designs an independent project to study a subject area that is not available in the journalism curriculum. Prior to registration, the student must submit a written proposal that outlines the project. Department permission is required.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-3598
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 6



  

  • JOUR 550 Journalism Short Documentary

    The class offers intensive hands-on training in multimedia storytelling with an emphasis on audio and video story forms. Students will learn to produce in-depth “mini-doc” stories on deadline and in-depth feature stories focusing on newsworthy trends and issues using journalistic best practices and ethics. Students also will analyze and critique professional multimedia pieces.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5840
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 563 Global Multimedia

    In this multimedia and social media course, graduate students cover international issues in the United States, focusing on immigrant communities in Chicago to understand and report on issues of global importance; analyze breaking news and in-depth reporting from around the world; and write and produce multimedia international spot news/feature stories.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 53-5660
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 564 Solutions Journalism: Investigating Social Impact

    In this research course, students will use the techniques of solutions journalism to gain practical insight into how contemporary problems can be addressed. Students will produce a publishable solutions journalism story by carefully researching a problem and the responses to it through in-depth interviews with community members as well as experts, gathering evidence of impact (effectiveness as well as limitations), and completing a story that is insightful, factually accurate and written with intellectual depth and compelling prose.

    Repeatable: N
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 567 Solutions Journalism Lab

    Graduate students will produce a short solutions journalism project as they assume various roles in research, pre-production, production and post-production. As part of the production process, students will learn how to write a journalistic documentary treatment, determine the appropriate media production tools and platform, establish a community engagement plan, and develop an appropriate method for distribution to connect with their targeted audience. Graduate students are asked to have additional reflections and to analyze the impact of their solutions journalism work.

    Repeatable: N
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 599 Topics in Storytelling for Social Change

    In this course, graduate students explore emerging journalism and media industry practice in which storytelling drives social change. Students will research, pitch and produce a media work that leads to impactful social change, choosing the appropriate tools and platforms to reach their intended audience. Projects may take the form of interactive or immersive media, cloud-based mobile media, location-based media experiences, serious games, video or other approved media. Topics change as appropriate and necessary.

    Repeatable: Y
    Requirements Permission Required (DP)
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • JOUR 699 Topics in Journalism

    Students will study, interview and assist journalists who are applying their skills and training in non-traditional roles and jobs both inside and outside news organizations. The students will contribute written and multi-media elements to ongoing research about the rapidly evolving media environment and employment trends affecting the journalism field.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 53-5570
    Minimum Credits 1 Maximum Credits 3



  
  

  • LITR 101H Introduction to Literature: Honors

    Course introduces students to genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. By studying important works by writers of culturally diverse backgrounds, students gain experience in reading, analyzing, interpreting, and writing about literature. Course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-1600HN
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 103 Introduction to Literary Interpretation

    Course introduces students to key terms, concepts, and techniques of literary interpretation, with attention to questions of genre, period, and critical perspective. Students analyze selections of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and/or drama representing a range of historical periods and cultural traditions, and they learn to compose evidence-based interpretive arguments. Designed for students in English and Creative Writing.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-1701
    DEI
    English or Creative Writing Major or Minor Only (4ECW)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 105 Literature, Culture, and Power

    This course examines how literary texts are connected to social power and privilege. Sections might focus on one or more of the following topics: race, class, gender, sexuality, religion, disability, ethnicity, language, technology, empire, diaspora, etc….

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-1601
    HL DEI
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  

  • LITR 120 Introduction to Readings in Creative Nonfiction

    A survey class in Creative Nonfiction which will focus on several genres of nonfiction writing: autobiography/memoir, the essay, travel writing, aphorism, prose poetry, biography, etc. This class will introduce students to some of the larger issues in nonfiction and some of the more specific questions that arise within its sub-genres. Students will also have an opportunity to try their hands at writing creative nonfiction through exercises and/or prompts provided by the instructor.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-1603
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • LITR 202H English Authors: Romantics to Contemporary: Honors

    Course’s selected readings range from Blake and the Romantic poets to contemporary figures such as Harold Pinter. Significant writers studied may include Wollstonecraft, Austen, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, the Brownings, the Brontes, Hardy, Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Lawrence. This course is part of the Honors program and requires, at a minimum, a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher to register.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2611HN
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  

  • LITR 217 The Beat Generation in Literature

    This course will place the Beat writers firmly within the context of their times and trace the cultural and historical currents which shaped this body of poetry, literature, art and film. Students will explore how these writers broke with the cultural past of America and the West while also building continuities with that past. Authors studied might include Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Diane Di Prima and Allen Ginsberg, among others.

    Repeatable: N
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  

  • LITR 225H Postcolonial Literature: Honors

    Generally understood as the literature written in countries that have gone through colonization and decolonization, postcolonial literature includes writing concerned with a wide variety of political and literary issues that include, but are by no means limited to: colonial power and anticolonial conflict, political and cultural legacies of imperialism in the newly independent postcolony, and the role of diaspora. Our class will be structured around these three broad sets of ideas, and will attempt the daunting work of balancing a global understanding of the various moves in postcolonial literature with a particularized and intense analysis of individual works. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2760HN
    HL DEI
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  

  • LITR 238 Asian American Literature

    A rotating topics course tracing the emergence and development of Asian American Literature. Course examines the artistic contributions of Asian American authors, and how they have explored issues of concern to Asian Americans. Topics may include Survey of Asian American Literature, Asian American Fiction, Asian American Theatre and Film, or others. Authors studied may include Maxine Hong Kingston, John Okada, Lan Samantha Chang, Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, and Diana Son.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-2647
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 238H Asian American Literature: Honors

    A rotating topics course tracing the emergence and development of Asian American Literature. Course examines the artistic contributions of Asian American authors, and how they have explored issues of concern to Asian Americans. Topics may include Survey of Asian American Literature, Asian American Fiction, Asian American Theatre and Film, or others. Authors studied may include Maxine Hong Kingston, John Okada, Lan Samantha Chang, Philip Kan Gotanda, David Henry Hwang, and Diana Son. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-2647HN
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  

  • LITR 241 Spike Lee and August Wilson

    This course examines the relationship between the written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. The course will explore how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students will acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. African-American themes regarding socio-historical context, aesthetics, and critical theory will be examined. The course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2707
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 243 Singleton & Hughes

    This course examines the relationship between the written and filmed versions of a story, novel, play, or poetry. The course will explore how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students will acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. African American themes regarding socio-historical context, aesthetics, and critical theory will be examined. The course establishes connections between literature and other areas of arts and communications.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2717
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  

  • LITR 260 Dramatic Literature

    Series of courses focuses on figures, periods, or movements in dramatic literature. Content includes modern American drama, which surveys twentieth-century American playwrights such as O’Neill, Odets, Heilman, Williams, Miller, Inge, and Hansberry, and experimental drama, which explores the development of experimental theater through figures such as Jarry, Beckett, Stein, Ionesco, Shepard, and Shange. Course is repeatable as topic changes.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-2665
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 260H Dramatic Literature: Honors

    This writing intensive course focuses on dramatic texts by contemporary minority playwrights. We will examine the emergence and development of ethnic American drama, looking at works by African American, Asian American, Native American, and Latino/a playwrights. We will investigate issues relating to the politics of self-representation, the ways hegemonic dominant beliefs discursively construct the Other, and the intersections between race, gender, and sexuality. We will attempt to answer some of the following questions: What is at stake in the representation of people of color and queer people on the American stage How do issues of racial conflict and sexual politics inform the seemingly neutral domestic space of families and personal relations What are the linkages between race and class in contemporary society, as depicted by these playwrights By the end of this course, students will be able to think critically about issues of race, gender and sexuality in American drama, be conversant with theoretical issues of craft and practice in theater studies, and be able to speak and write in a sophisticated, articulate manner about literature in general, and contemporary ethnic American drama in particular. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-2665HN
    HL
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  

  • LITR 266A Shakespeare

    Students examine Shakespeare’s works in their literary, historical, and artistic contexts. Course topics include an introduction to Shakespeare, which provides an overview of Shakespeare’s works;  Shakespeare: Tragedies, which may include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth; Shakespeare: Comedies, which may include the Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest; Shakespeare: Histories, which may include plays from Richard II to Richard III. Texts studied may vary from section to section. Course is repeatable as topic changes.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly LITR 365
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 266B Shakespeare

    Series of courses examines Shakespeare’s works in their literary, historical, and artistic contexts. Shakespeare: Tragedies may include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Shakespeare: Comedies may include The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. Shakespeare: Histories focuses on Shakespeare’s dramatization of English history from Richard II to Richard III. Shakespeare: Political Plays considers some histories and plays such as Julius Caesar and Coriolanus. Course is repeatable as topic changes.

    Repeatable: Y
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 266H Shakespeare: Honors

    Series of courses examines Shakespeare’s works in their literary, historical, and artistic contexts. Shakespeare: Tragedies may include Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Shakespeare: Comedies may include The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. Shakespeare: Histories focuses on Shakespeare’s dramatization of English history from Richard II to Richard III. Shakespeare: Political Plays considers some histories and plays such as Julius Caesar and Coriolanus. Course is repeatable as topic changes. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly LITR 365H
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II 
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 268 Literature on Film

    Class concerns the relationship between written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. Course explores how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. Instructors may focus on a particular theme, such as the love story, fantasy, or mythology. Works studied have been as diverse as The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2690
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 268H Literature on Film: Honors

    Class concerns the relationship between written and filmed versions of a story, novel, or play. Course explores how character development, plot, narrative, symbols, and language are translated from text to film. To facilitate analysis, students acquire a basic vocabulary for discussing literature and film. Instructors may focus on a particular theme, such as the love story, fantasy, or mythology. Works studied have been as diverse as The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke. This is an Honors course and in addition to other pre-requisites, students need a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2690HN
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  

  • LITR 270H The Bible as Literature: Honors

    Course studies literary qualities of the Bible with attention to its poetic and narrative modes. Instruction examines ways in which Biblical literary forms, themes, and images influence American and European literature. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2672HN
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  
  
  

  • LITR 279 Zombies in Popular Media

    This course explores the history, significance, and representation of the zombie as a figure in horror and fantasy texts. Instruction follows an intense schedule, using critical theory and source media (literature, comics, and films) to spur discussion and exploration of the figure’s many incarnations. Daily assignments focus on reflection and commentary, while final projects foster thoughtful connections between student disciplines and the figure of the zombie.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2725J
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 281H Victorian Illustrated Poetry: Honors

    In this seminar, we will focus on Victorian illustrated poetry and its dynamic interplay between image and word. We will consider the function and effect of illustration in general, and the special problematic associated with the visual interpretation of poetry. We will also pay attention to the illustrated book as a material object, a collaboration of many makers working within the context of particular human, institutional, and cultural relationships. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2692HN
    HL
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 282 The Vietnam War in History, Literature and the Arts

    The Vietnam War is one of the most studied, documented, and argued about wars in American history. The debate has taken the form of historical inquiries, poetry, novels, film, music, and other arts. The war shaped the experiences of a generation and continues to affect American life and arts. This interdisciplinary course examines the conflict in Southeast Asia through the eyes of journalists, fiction writers, poets, historians, filmmakers, musicians, and other artists.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2636
    HL GA
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 282H The Vietnam War in History, Literature and the Arts: Honors

    The Vietnam War is one of the most studied, documented, and argued about wars in American history. The debate has taken the form of historical inquiries, poetry, novels, film, music, and other arts. The war shaped the experiences of a generation and continues to affect American life and arts. This interdisciplinary course examines the conflict in Southeast Asia through the eyes of journalists, fiction writers, poets, historians, filmmakers, musicians, and other artists. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2636HN
    HL PL
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 284 Literature and Visual Culture

    This course introduces students to a broad range of approaches to visual texts and written literature. Students will learn how visual, cultural, and literary theories enable them to create different interpretive strategies in their approaches to specific texts. Critical concepts studied may include subjectivity, the gaze, (re)presentation, gendered bodies, the practice of everyday life, the posthuman. The class will emphasize students’ critical writing as a creative process.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2751
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 284H Literature and Visual Culture: Honors

    This course introduces students to a broad range of approaches to visual texts and written literature. Students will learn how visual, cultural, and literary theories enable them to create different interpretive strategies in their approaches to specific texts. Critical concepts studied may include subjectivity, the gaze, (re)presentation, gendered bodies, the practice of everyday life, the posthuman. The class will emphasize students’ critical writing as a creative process. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2751HN
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 285 Graphic Narrative: Words, Image, Culture

    This course explores past and present comics, graphic novel perspectives and the influences of visual culture upon the ways in which human interactions are represented through the convergence of text and images. With an emphasis on the creative and critical processes and products of those who have mastered hybrid image/text forms, students will critically read, discuss and write about significant literary and graphic image contributions to the field. Participants will also investigate their own lived experience with comics, graphic novels and Visual Culture. Students will learn to see beyond the received definitions and applications of comics and graphic novels to discover new cultural, aesthetic, historical, economic, etc. connections with graphic narrative forms. We will examine the works of: Art Spiegalman, Gotthold Ephriam Lessing, Scott McCloud, Will Eisner, Chris Ware, Alison Bechdel, Marijane Satrapi, Mike Mignola, Alan Moore and David Gibbons, Jeremy Lowe, Aaron McGruder, Guy DeLisele, and many others.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-3752
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  

  • LITR 286H Literature and the Culture of Cyberspace: Honors

    Students consider representations of cyberspace in literature and explore themes such as cyberspace and postmodernism; virtual reality; the posthuman; and definitions of space, time, and identity. Authors studied may include William Gibson, Jeanette Winterson, Shelley Jackson, Michael Joyce, and Stuart Moulthrop. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-2753HN
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 287 Literature and Gaming

    Students explore how game play and game design foster intersections between literary and technological approaches to representing human experience. Course may address theories of representation and simulation, relationships between print and digital cultures, and the implications of digital media for literary interpretation. Emphasis on collaborative student projects built around selected literary texts. Technology/gaming background not required, although students should have basic computer literacy. Course theme may change from term to term. Course repeatable as theme changes.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-3755
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  
  
  
  

  • LITR 310H Studies in the Novel: Honors

    Rotating topics course examines origins and development of the novel in British, American, World, Postcolonial, or other contexts. Consideration of narrative form and style in light of related historical, aesthetic, and cultural factors. Course is repeatable as topic changes. This is an Honors class. In addition to other possible pre-requisites, students need a minimum G.P.A. of 3.50 or higher to enroll.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-3610HN
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Requirements 3.5 or Higher GPA (35GP)
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  

  • LITR 340A African American Literature

    Series of courses focuses on African-American literature. African-American Women Writers examines figures such as Harriet Wilson, Frances Harper, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Toni Morrison, and Terry McMillan. African-American Novel examines novelists such as James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston. Course is repeatable as topic changes.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly LITR 340
    HL DEI PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 340B African American Literature

    Series of courses focuses on African-American literature. African-American Women Writers examines figures such as Harriet Wilson, Frances Harper, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Ann Petry, Toni Morrison, and Terry McMillan. African-American Novel examines novelists such as James Weldon Johnson, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston. Course is repeatable as topic changes.

    Repeatable: Y
    HL DEI PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 344 Slave Narrative as Documentary

    Course examines literary and cinematic traditions in which slave narratives and African-American documentary film share rhetorical, artistic and political purposes. Course demonstrates how slave narratives and documentary film functioned at the forefronts of the 20th century socio-cultural activism for the redress of inequalities. Through written text and cinema-graphic arguments, the course explores how slave narratives served as analogs to American literary conventions and how documentary films continue to inform popular and critical literary texts and images. This course is a critical research course that informs and supports the goals and objectives of Writing & Rhetoric I and II foundational courses within the English Department.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-3645
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 350 Women Writers

    Series of courses explores women writers. Southern Women Writers considers myths and realities of American South in light of regionalism and socioeconomic, racial, and religious factors. Writers may include Welty, O’Connor, Walker, McCullers, Porter, Settle, Mason, and Humphreys. Contemporary course focuses on writers who examined woman’s place in culture and who helped shape new attitudes toward women. Representative artists may include Atwood, Lessing, Oates, Morrison, Wasserstein, and Churchill. Course is repeatable as topic changes.

    Repeatable: Y
    Formerly 52-3650
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 109 Writing and Rhetoric I Stretch B  or ENGL 111 Writing and Rhetoric I  or ENGL 111H Writing and Rhetoric I: Honors  or ENGL 121 International Writing and Rhetoric I  or TWC-T-7 EXAM-TWC WRITING MINIMUM SCORE = 7  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  
  
  

  • LITR 374 Contemporary American Poetry

    Works of poets such as Roethke, Ginsberg, Plath, Lowell, Ashbery, Rich, Creeley, Bly, Baraka, Brooks, and others are read and discussed in survey of post-modernist period, 1945 to present. Course also examines rise of important movements such as projectivism, the Beats, the New York School, Confessional Poetry, Surrealism, Feminism, the New Formalism, and Multiculturalism.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-3672
    HL
    Prerequisites ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



  

  • LITR 375 Poetry and Jazz

    This class will explore ways in which the creative impulses and procedures of jazz-a music of intense emotion, imagination (intuitively structured improvisation), and energy (fresh, vital rhythms and instrumental colors)-have inspired and intensified modern poetry. We will listen to jazz on record, read examples of poetry inspired by jazz, discuss their common social and cultural contexts, and discover how music may influence poetry’s subject, language, sound, and form. No previous knowledge of jazz is required for this course.

    Repeatable: N
    Formerly 52-3675
    HL PL
    Prerequisites ENGL 112 Writing and Rhetoric II  or ENGL 112H Writing and Rhetoric II: Honors  or ENGL 122 International Writing and Rhetoric II  
    Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3



 

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