This course teaches the skills required for studying literature with understanding and pleasure. It is designed to help students become perceptive readers equipped with the vocabulary and tools necessary for interpreting complex texts.
Learn more about this courseThis course will begin with the work of classical and canonical playwrights -- Sophocles, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Chekhov, and Beckett -- before moving to the contemporary stage and the dramatic experimentation of Marina Carr, Lynn Nottage, Sarah Kane, Martin McDonagh, and Simon Stephens.
Learn more about this courseThis course examines basic elements and strategies of storytelling and of home-making through the lenses of displacement and disconnection.
Learn more about this courseThis course discusses the fundamental formal features of fiction, including point of view, plot, characterization, description, setting, and style.
Learn more about this coursePoetry helps us make sense of the world; the world helps us make sense of poetry. This semester, we will put these abstract statements to the test, as we read a variety of poems by diverse authors from the long history of poetry.
Learn more about this courseFrom lyrical life-writing and reflections on nature, to tales of travel and adventure, to social critique and works of public advocacy, environmental writing encompasses a variety of nonfiction genres.
Learn more about this courseIn this course, we will read selected works from the 19th century to the present, examining how women authors use writing similarly and differently to represent women’s lives, particularly their domestic, creative, and professional work.
Learn more about this courseThis is a course on American superhero comics, their history and what they mean as a signal aspect of US culture.
Learn more about this courseThis course focuses on representations of the animal in modern and contemporary literature and film, with particular emphasis on the aesthetic and ethical issues entwined with the question of the animal, including how we understand, imagine, value, and interact with other animals.
Learn more about this courseThis course will examine the topic of what it means to "fit in" and to fail (or refuse) to fit in.
Learn more about this courseThis class will examine the worldwide popularity of the mystery/crime fiction literary genre through the lens of the BBC radio program "Foreign Bodies."
Learn more about this courseThis course offers an introduction to the analysis and appreciation of science fiction, or as it is sometimes called, the literature of cognitive estrangement.
Learn more about this courseAmerica has become a confessing culture, as individuals use social media to disclose information, and celebrities and politicians are increasingly compelled to publicly apologize for their behavior.
Learn more about this courseThis course will examine the ways in which gender and sexual categories in literature challenge and interrogate social norms.
Learn more about this courseIn this class, you'll learn various approaches to studying a range of literary works, from poetry, to short fiction, to novels, drama, and graphic texts.
Learn more about this courseIn this class, you'll learn various approaches to studying a range of literary works, from poetry, to short fiction, to novels, drama, and graphic texts.
Learn more about this courseThe amazing Canterbury Tales has stood the test of time: it is one of those dynamic, energetic, gorgeous, inventive, not-to-be-missed greats of literary history!
Learn more about this courseThis course begins with Anglo-Saxon visions of identity and community, as well as the social outlaws rendered as monsters.
Learn more about this courseThis course offers a broad overview of British and American literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – an era of empire, industry, and revolution, which produced modern democratic states and modern notions of selfhood.
Learn more about this courseThis survey course will be organized around writing produced in or associated with three modern metropolises: Dublin, London, and New York.
Learn more about this courseThis course is designed to enable students to read and thereby to acquire an understanding and appreciation of the poetry of Jonson, Donne, Herbert, and Marvell, among others.
Learn more about this courseThis course will cover that period in England's literary history that marked the transition from absolute monarchy to parliamentary monarchy, and that laid the foundations for modern democracy.
Learn more about this courseThis course provides a broad overview of English prose literature of the second half of the twentieth century.
Learn more about this courseThis single author course will pair the writings of American postmodernist Kurt Vonnegut with archival materials from the mid-20th century.
Learn more about this courseCritical Practices is a course that allows students to think about questions that most literature classes raise but which often aren't the focus of discussion: What is the function of literature and how does it relate to other disciplines, such as the sciences?
Learn more about this courseIn this course, we will explore the historical and theoretical connections between rhetoric, poetics, and aesthetics.
Learn more about this courseWhen Virginia Woolf claimed that the year 1910 marked a change in human character, she noted a fundamental shift in human experience, in self-understanding, and in the possibilities for artistic expression in the early twentieth century.
Learn more about this courseThis course will study Anglo-American children's literature through the frame of the fantastic, stretching from fairy stories to the contemporary flourishing of fantasy fiction for children.
Learn more about this courseIn this course we'll put British movies in "dialogue" with related American ones, in order to gain better understanding of these films' artistic techniques, thematic concerns, cultural backgrounds, and historical contexts.
Learn more about this courseThis course focuses on Afrofuturism, a cultural mode practiced primarily by African American writers, artists and musicians.
Learn more about this course"So, what did you do this semester?" "Oh, not much, y'know...just read Moby-Dick."
Learn more about this courseThis seminar is for students interested in advanced study of fictional techniques, including students who are creative writers themselves.
Learn more about this courseThis seminar will discern the gradual emergence of modern idea of the sovereign individual, the person as sole "owner" of him or herself.
Learn more about this courseThis is the voyage of the Lorem Ipsum, Indiana University's first R209-class rhetorical vessel. Our sixteen-week mission: to explore strange and familiar worlds through our reading, viewing, and play.
Learn more about this courseDigital technologies have fully saturated our culture. From smartphones to smart-homes, fitbits to tablets, our everyday lives are digitally infused.
Learn more about this courseAdvocacy and Debate centers on the role of debate in public life and its applications for public advocacy and democratic institutions.
Learn more about this courseThis course introduces students to the creative art of storytelling with podcasts.
Learn more about this courseThis course will examine the relationship between rhetoric and race, exploring the possibilities and implications entailed by an understanding of race as a rhetorical phenomenon.
Learn more about this courseThis course takes a rhetorical perspective on the contested nature of public memory in the United States.
Learn more about this courseScience, Communication, and the Public asks the question How can scientists better communicate their research and concerns to the public?
Learn more about this courseThis course offers students the opportunity to serve with a local community organization and to advocate for its mission, events, and/or initiatives through storytelling.
Learn more about this courseW303 is an intermediate poetry workshop for developing poets and prose writers who want to continue to practice the craft of writing through the exuberantly rigorous and joyfully intensive practice of reading, workshop, and revising poems.
Learn more about this courseGiven the degree to which the act of writing (and exposition more specifically) now operates across medial platforms and purposes, this course will take as its focus expository writing in (and for) digital environments.
Learn more about this courseMastering the craft of fiction writing -- like any other art form -- depends on the skills you develop as an apprentice.
Learn more about this courseIn this course you will deepen your study of the craft of writing fiction.
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