LIT 320 - American Literature (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. A survey of major works of American literature. Provides a foundation for understanding the currents of American thought and experiences. Special emphasis is paid to American literature within a global context.

LIT 321 - British Literature (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. A survey of the major works of British literature. Provides a foundation for understanding the currents of British thought and experience. Special emphasis is paid to British literature within a global context.

LIT 330 - World Literature I: North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Australia and Oceania (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101, and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Enhances understanding of other cultures and of past and contemporary global interactions.

LIT 331 - World Literature II: Africa and the Middle East, Asia, and Europe (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Enhances the under-standing of other cultures and of past and contemporary global interactions.

LIT 340 - Contemporary Literature (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Focuses on the study of literary works published within the last ten years. Considers how contemporary issues and problems are addressed in a variety of literary works.

LIT 350 - Fiction (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Explores the short story and the novel from varied countries and eras. Emphasis is given to narrative methods, representative themes, and global perspectives.

LIT 352 - 20th Century European Fiction (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Examines themes ranging from war and occupation, revolution, Fascism, and Communism to individual liberation and self-discovery, existen-tialism, absurdism, and feminism.

LIT 355 - Poetry (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Explores the problems, devices, and techniques of poetry'sound, rhythm, meter; diction and tone; connotation, metaphor, and symbol?as a means of demystifying the reading of poems. Emphasis is given to the place and purpose of poetry in a technological society.

LIT 360 - Drama (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Follows the development of play structure from folkloric origins to contemporary theater. Emphasis is on text, history of text development, and the changing purpose of theatrical presentations.

LIT 361 - 20th Century American Drama (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Examines the development of 20th century American drama with emphasis on the ways, often experimental, in which the playwrights reflect the spirit of the times.

LIT 362 - Non-Western Drama (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Explores clas-sical and contemporary theater and drama in China, Japan, India, Africa, and the Middle East.

LIT 363 - Ethnic and Minority Drama (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Using con-tem-porary dramas as social, historical, and cultural artifacts, examines the experience of Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and African Americans.

LIT 364 - Modern Continental and British Drama (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. An examination of some of the dramas from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries with the purpose of gaining some understanding of how dramatists, in both subject matter and technique, reflect the spirit of the times. Representative playwrights include Ibsen, Shaw, Wilde, Strindberg, Synge, Chekhov, O?Casey, Pirandello, Anouilh, Brecht, Ionesco, and Pinter.

LIT 365 - Non-Fiction (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Examines the ways that writers examine cultural issues through the use of literary non-fiction. Emphasis is placed on autobiographical, persuasive, and narrative techniques.

LIT 370 - Literature and Diversity (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Allows students to explore the literature of human difference, including the literature of cross-cultural experience and sexual difference.

LIT 372 - African-American Literature (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212, Hist 213 or their equivalents. Allows students to explore themes and styles particular to literary works by and about African-Americans.

LIT 374 - Women and Literature (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Allows students to explore literature by and about women from around the world. Special attention is paid to autobiographical narratives

LIT 376 - Latin American Literature (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Examines the ways that writers of Latin America and the Caribbean explore their respective culture through techniques such as dream, myth, and legend to achieve an authentic and unique -vision. Special emphasis is given to 20th-century authors.

LIT 378 - Literature and Nature (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Literature as it reveals and interprets the natural world. Examines the ways that nature has been used in fiction, drama, poetry, and non-fiction. Students learn to describe the natural world in their writing. Co-listed as STS 378.

LIT 380 - Historical Literature (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Sources of fiction and drama are often based on historical personalities and actual incidents. Examines a number of such works. Original historical material is compared with the literary work it inspired, thus providing insights into the nature of the creative process and the purposes of the historian and the creative writer.

LIT 382 - The Comic Tradition in English and American Literature (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Presents great comic works from the 14th century to the present. Students study verse narratives, plays, novels, and essays. Emphasis is given to the classical roots and international connections of the comic tradition in English, the relationship between form and function in comedy, and elucidation of comedy's social and philosophical ends.

LIT 384 - American Musical Theater (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Experience a unique American theatrical tradition. Special attention is paid to contemporary productions.

LIT 386 - Science Fiction (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Explores the distinctive characteristics of science fiction as a literary genre and its function as a social criticism. Special attention is given to the ways in which cultural gender coding surfaces in the text. Films and video are used.

LIT 388 - The Russian Novel and Short Story (3-0-3)
Prerequisites: HUM 101 and two from among HUM 102, HUM 211, HUM 212 and Hist 213 or their equivalents. Focuses on Russian fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries. Approaches material both as evidence of artistic vision and as social documents of Russian history.