Literary Theory and Criticism

Introduction to Literary Theory28Theories of Interpretation24Theories of Genre22Theories of History and Literature25Theories of Race and Literature25Theories of Gender and Literature25Theories of Disability and Literature26Theories of Ecocriticism and Literature22Theories of Digital Humanities and Literature24

American Literature

The Puritan Era24The Enlightenment and the American Revolution30Romanticism and the American Renaissance27Realism and Naturalism28Modernism and the Lost Generation28Postmodernism and Contemporary American Literature25

British Literature

Beowulf24The Wanderer23The Seafarer26The Canterbury Tales27Sir Gawain and the Green Knight24Piers Plowman27The Faerie Queene23Hamlet25Macbeth22The Rape of the Lock28Gulliver s Travels22The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman28Lyrical Ballads25Frankenstein25Wuthering Heights22In Memoriam28The Mill on the Floss28The Picture of Dorian Gray27The Waste Land23Ulysses28To the Lighthouse28

Creative Writing

What is Creative Writing?25The Creative Process28Elements of Creative Writing25Genres of Creative Writing22Short Story Writing22Novel Writing28Flash Fiction Writing25Elements of Poetry24Traditional Poetry Forms25Contemporary Poetry Forms28Elements of Drama25One-Act Play Writing24Full-Length Play Writing22Types of Creative Nonfiction24Techniques of Creative Nonfiction30Ethics of Creative Nonfiction22Experimental Writing28Interdisciplinary Writing25Writing for Publication31

20th-Century Literature

The Rise of Modernism28Key Modernist Writers and Works24Modernist Techniques and Innovations30The Impact of World War I29The Lost Generation and American Expatriates24Major Works of the Interwar Period29The Existentialist Movement27The Beat Generation and the Counterculture27Contemporary Literary Trends27

Rhetoric and Composition

Classical Rhetoric29Modern Rhetoric27Contemporary Rhetoric26The Writing Process29Genre Analysis and Writing29Research Methods and Writing22Teaching Writing31Assessment of Writing25Technology in the Writing Classroom28

19th-Century Literature

The Gothic Novel29Romanticism and the Gothic Imagination30Major Gothic Authors25The Victorian Novel27Major Victorian Novelists25Victorian Poetry28Modernist Literature26Major Modernist Authors29Postmodern Literature24

Medieval Literature

Historical and Cultural Context31Major Genres and Forms26Key Themes and Motifs24Anglo-Saxon Literature29Celtic Literature27Latin Literature22Arthurian Romance24Courtly Love Poetry18Gothic Literature22Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales26Medieval Drama24Humanism and the Renaissance24

Contemporary Literature

Defining Postmodernism27Postmodern Fiction27Postmodern Poetry26The New American Novel21Contemporary American Poetry23Contemporary American Drama31Postcolonial Literature27Contemporary World Literature24Comparative Literature29Poststructuralism and Deconstruction31Feminist and Queer Theory27Critical Race Theory24

Renaissance Literature

Geoffrey Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales18The Rise of Humanism and the Italian Renaissance26William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Era25Edmund Spenser and The Faerie Queene23John Milton and Paradise Lost23The Metaphysical Poets28The Restoration and the Rise of Neoclassicism26Alexander Pope and the Enlightenment25The Gothic Revival27

World Literature

Introduction to Literary Theory23Theories of Interpretation24Literary Criticism in Practice22Ancient World Literature25Medieval World Literature30Renaissance and Early Modern World Literature23Modern World Literature30Contemporary World Literature23Homer25Shakespeare22Cervantes27Tolstoy22Joyce24The Challenges of Translation29The Role of Translation in World Literature25Translation as a Creative Act27

Digital Humanities

What is Digital Humanities?24Tools and Technologies for Digital Humanities28Methods for Text Analysis27Applications of Text Analysis in Digital Humanities26Principles of Data Visualization29Tools and Techniques for Data Visualization31Principles of Digital Mapping27Tools and Techniques for Digital Mapping27

18th-Century Literature

The Development of the Novel in the 18th Century23The Gothic Novel27The Sentimental Novel25The Influence of the Enlightenment on 18th-Century Literature26The Rise of Satire26The Rise of Literary Criticism24The Origins of Romanticism29The Romantic Poets22The Romantic Novelists28

Independent Study

Introduction to Literary Theory29Theories of Reading22Critical Approaches to Literature26Introduction to Research Methods27Research Design27Writing a Research Proposal23American Literature25British Literature28World Literature22Dissertation Proposal22Dissertation Research27Dissertation Writing24