Courses

Graduate level courses in psychology to support the master's degree in Engaged and Applied Humanities. The content will vary to suit student needs and faculty availability.

Focused topics in literature and theory of ethnicity, sexuality, gender, race, class, or disability. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 9 credit hours.

An examination of the literature of a specific region and the forces that shape its regional literary identity within the larger national contexts of the British Isles or the United States. Frequent offerings in Southern literature will rotate with other topics. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.

Selected topics in religious studies.

Emphasis on authors, contexts, and genres of the Renaissance. Recent emphases include Shakespeare, Renaissance epic, Tudor humanism, and John Milton. Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.

This course explores themes and trends in English literature between 1500-1700, including Milton and with an emphasis on poetry.

Studies specific prose works and narrative techniques of authors such as Alberti, Valla, Poliziano, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and Castiglione.

Focuses on specific works and poetics of Renaissance Italian poetry represented by Lorenzo de Medici, Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso, Marino, and others.

Study of selected dramatic texts from the Sacra Rappresentazione through Aretino and Monteverdi to Alfieri.

Major writers of the period with emphasis on scholarship and aesthetics as well as cultural and historical background. Recent emphases include Johnson and his circle, Restoration and eighteenth-century drama, and the eighteenth-century novel. Repeatable with different emphases for up to nine hours of English credit.