Graduate Courses:
EN7301G – Contemporary Literary Criticism
This course offers a background in current literary criticism including approaches such as: Psychoanalytical, Feminist, Postmodern and Postcolonial. Students are introduced to key thinkers in each school of criticism. These critical approaches are applied to a selection of masterpieces by authors who include Marcel Proust, Edgar Allen Poe, Franz Kafka, Carlos Fuentes, Sandra Cisneros, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Jorge Luis Borges.
EN7311G – Comparative Literature: Modern & Postmodern
By concentrating on the fascinating phenomenon of postmodernism, this course develops a thorough perspective of contemporary literature from modernity to recent days. It also sharpens analytical skills through the study of critical theories that define the Postmodern. Works range from Franz Kafka and T.S. Eliot to Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, Marguerite Duras, Margaret Atwood and Thomas Pynchon.
EN7314G – International Literature
The purpose of this course is to introduce the student to literary masterpieces of the Western World while placing them in the cultural and geo-temporal context in which they arose. Emphasis will be placed on understanding the various cultural and aesthetic movements and how they evolved. Some of the authors to be read are Sophocles, Cervantes, Moliere, Mary Shelley, Jean Paul Sartre, and T.S. Eliot.
Honors Course:
HO3301 – The Aesthetic Experience
This course focuses on the transformation of aesthetic consciousness in literature and the arts in Western culture. Developments are traced from medieval to contemporary art, music, drama and literature. The course should stimulate the appreciation of the arts as visions mirroring the dominant values of each age, in which reality may be experienced intuitively as well as rationally.
Undergraduate Courses:
EN2321W – International Literature I: Short Story & Essay
This course focuses primarily on the short story and to a lesser extent on the essay. Key works within these genres have been selected from an eclectic body of world-wide literature. The purpose is acquainting the student with classic and experimental works of these genres, to learn the nature of forms and how they have evolved, and to develop in the student a love of reading short stories. The course includes works by Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Rosario Ferré, Luisa Valenzuela, Ernest Hemmingway, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges and others.
Prerequisite: EN1311 or 1313.
EN2322W – International Literature II: Poetry & Drama
This course focuses on literature from around the world in the genres of poetry and drama. The purpose is to acquaint the student with classical and avant-garde works and to develop an appreciation for some of the masterpieces of Western literature in these areas. The student will also prepare formal written critiques and write original poems. The course includes works by Sophocles, Henrik Ibsen, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pablo Neruda and others.
Prerequisite: EN1311 or 1313.