Courses

Development of research skills using specific resources and strategies. Students will learn to identify their research needs, and how to select, evaluate and integrate resources into a scholarly product .

An exploration of the literature and culture of gender and sexuality. Topics may include feminist and queer theory, traditions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer writing (autobiography, fiction, poetry, etc.) or themes such as marriage, sexual and gender identity, or HIV/AIDS. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

A comparative study of Anglophone literature that brings writers and/or literary movements in or from Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, and the English-speaking Caribbean in conversation through a theme, genre, and/or theoretical approach. Themes, genres, and/or theoretical approaches can vary, like the countries/regions/areas studied. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

An interdisciplinary variable topics course in which the topic is explored from the perspectives of the disciplines of literature and history. The underlying connections and interplay between history and literature will be examined.

How history is remembered and how the memory of history contributes to and differs from the writing of history. The course will explore how historic eventsare commemorated and what this tells us about the values and beliefs of those commemorating, how different cultures and groups remember history, and therole that institutionalized social structures play in the remembrance of history.

How history is remembered and how the memory of history contributes to and differs from the writing of history. The course will explore how historic events are commemorated and what this tells us about the values and beliefs of those commemorating, how different cultures and groups remember history, and the role that institutionalized social structures play in the remembrance of history.

How history is remembered and how the memory of history contributes to anddiffers from the writing of history. Attention will be paid to how historic events are commemorated and what this tells us about the values and beliefs of those commemorating. The course will explore how different cultures and groups remember history and the role that institutionalized social structures play in theremembrance of history.

VT:INDIVIDUAL SPORTS

A study of the relationship between literary scholarship and other disciplines such as religion, psychology, political science, philosophy, and science. The course can focus on one or more interdisciplinary approaches. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

Detailed study of a major writer, such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Brian O’Nolan, Seamus Heaney, or Medbh McGuckian, or of a group of writers, such as the contemporary Ulster poets. May be repeated for credit if the topic is different.