Emphasizes active learning through guided listening experiences, trips to local museums, and poetry readings. Topics include aesthetics, film theory, visual composition, editing and narrative. Representative films by such directors as Eisenstein, Huston, Hitchcock, De Sica and Kurosawa are viewed and discussed. An introduction to some of the major British writers from the Middle Ages to the present. Although attention is paid to historical and biographical materials, the focus of the course is on the literary texts themselves.
Emphasis is on close reading, formal analysis, and critical interpretation.
World Literature Selected literary works from the ancient to the modern world are read in translation. Emphasis on major themes and forms which recur in different cultures and time periods. Content of course changes each year. Recent offerings have included literature and film, Detective fiction, and literature and myth. Culture A study of the social and cultural experiences of three ethnic groups as interpreted in literature.