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Literature Recommended: College-level reading ability.
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LIT 115 - Introduction to Literature: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Introduces fiction, poetry, and drama. This course emphasizes active and responsive reading. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 201 - World Literature to 1600: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Examines significant writings in world literature from the ancients to the seventeenth century. It emphasizes active reading and understanding of the works and their cultural backgrounds.~~This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 202 - World Literature After 1600: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Examines significant writings in world literature from the seventeenth century to the present. It emphasizes active reading and understanding of the works and their cultural backgrounds.~~This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 205 - Ethnic Literature: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Focuses on significant texts by ethnic American’s including African-American, Native American, Latino/a, and Asian Americans. Emphasizes careful reading and understanding of the cultural and literary elements of the works.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 211 - American Literature to the Civil War: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Examines American literary works from pre-European arrival on the continent up to the Civil War, including works from diverse people that contributed to American literature. This course also explores historical and social contexts within various genres. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 212 - American Literature after the Civil War: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Examines American literary works from 1865 to the present, distinguishing among literary themes, genres, and schools of thought that illustrate historical and social contexts across a multicultural spectrum. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 220 - Jewish-American Literature
3 Credits
Surveys some of the major achievements in literature and film by American Jews in late-nineteenth through the twentieth century. We will proceed chronologically, focusing on the fiction of the immigrant experience, the politicized literature of the 1930 and the 1940s, the literature of the post-WWII era and its struggle to fashion an adequate response to the Holocaust, and on questions surrounding assimilation, acculturation, and identity politics.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 221 - British Literature to 1770: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Examines major works of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the 17th century. Explores the historical, political, and social contexts of the works as well as the major themes which reflect and/or critique the social assumptions and values of the times. Besides fostering an understanding of works essential to western culture, the course will examine how these works are still influential and relevant to contemporary thought and culture. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 222 - British Literature Since 1770: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Examines major works of British literature from the 18th century to the present. Explores the historical, political, and social contexts of the works and the major themes authors used to reflect and critique the social assumptions of their times. Besides fostering an understanding of works essential to western culture, the course examines how these works are still influential and relevant to contemporary thought and culture. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 225 - Introduction to Shakespeare: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Explores works by William Shakespeare, focusing on a careful reading of these works as well as an exploration of pertinent contextual and historical information. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 230 - Comics/Graphic Novels
3 Credits
Survey and analyze a particular kind of visual literature - that art form known as the “Graphic Novel” or “Comic Art.” This course serves as an introduction to critical methods in popular culture studies, with a focus on the graphic novel as cultural product and practice. Together we will explore the ways in which meanings emerge in several celebrated texts of the graphic novel genre, as well as some emerging classics. Our readings of these texts will be informed by a diversity of theoretical perspectives, including visual culture studies, post-modernism and intersectionality. We will interrogate the relationships between the concepts “graphic novel” or “comic book” and “popular culture” with each of us bringing our lived experiences to our readings and discussions. In the context of contemporary U.S. society, we see how critical studies of popular culture have a distinct place in the arts and humanities. We will consider the contradictory ways in which difference, power and knowledge are articulated in cultural production. Through in-depth studies of several primary texts we will learn how graphic storytellers use and manipulate historical and contemporary social issues as the building blocks for their art. Finally we will apply these skills to create our own application of the art of graphic storytelling.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 235 - Science Fiction
3 Credits
Examines the techniques and issues of science fiction through a close reading a variety of writers in the genre.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 255 - Children’s Literature
3 Credits
Examines the criteria for selecting appropriate literature for children. Explores literature through a variety of genres, age levels, values taught through literature, and literary and artistic qualities of various texts.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 257 - Literature and Film: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Examines the relationship between literature and motion pictures, emphasizing the technique and interpretive function of filmmakers.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 259 - Survey of African American Literature: GTAH2
3 Credits
Examines African American literature from 1750 to the present. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH2 category.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 267 - The Bible as Literature
3 Credits
Introduces the Bible as the textual centerpiece of Western literature. Students will encounter the various literary genres represented in Biblical texts, the process of canonization, ways in which the Bible has been read by its various interpretive communities, and some impacts of the Bible in such areas as law, poetry, fiction, psychology, ethics, and theology.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 268 - Celtic Literature: GT-AH2
3 Credits
Exposes the student to Irish literature. The course examines significant writings in Irish literature from the ancients through to the 21st century. The course emphasizes the careful reading and understanding of the works of poetry, fiction and drama, as well as their cultural backgrounds.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 269 - Popular Literature and Culture
3 Credits
Explores special interests in literature, such as Detective Fiction and Science Fiction.
Prerequisite(s): CCR 092 (or higher) or equivalent.
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LIT 275 - Special Topics
1-6 Variable Credits
Provides students with an opportunity to pursue in-depth exploration of a special topic of interest.
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LIT 285 - Independent Study
1-6 Variable Credits
Explores particular authors, topics, themes in depth, such as Ibsen, Faulkner or Twain, or great fiction of the nineteenth century.
Required: Instructor’s permission
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