300 Level // Archived

Introduction to literary theory and practice.  Close reading of and significant writing about selected literary texts informed by a variety of critical and/or theoretical perspectives.

Designed for students who wish additional training in composition beyond the basic requirements. Extensive practice in the writing of mature expository, critical, and argumentative prose. (The course satisfies the Indiana certification requirement of three hours of advanced composition.)

Development of skill in analyzing rhetorical situations in the workplace. Practice in planning, writing, evaluating, and revising a variety of documents typical of those used in the arts and industry.

The development of the ability to write and design documents using electronic publishing technologies. Students will receive instruction in writing, graphics, and publishing software and will write, design, produce, and critique a number of publications.

The structure of American English and its dialects, with emphasis on syntax and semantics, including parts of speech, sentence structure, and meaning. Implications of recent theory for the teaching of English.

This course explores legal conflicts through literature. It uses the narratives created by the cat-and-mouse of procedural dramas, emotionally charged trial scenes, and dramatic courtroom struggles, to introduce different schools of jurisprudence, and to critically examine the decisions made by those with social and legal governing power.

This course looks at the ways that narrative worlds get built in games. We will begin by looking at the narrative elements in analog games that have been the foundation of many digital games and move on to look at the elements in digital games that come together to form the worlds.

A survey of seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century American literature from European colonization to the U.S. Civil War.

An introduction to feminist approaches to the study of literature, including poetry, drama, fiction, and/or autobiography. Examines how gender intersects with race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and class in shaping authorship, reading, and representation.

A study through cultural and theoretical works of the impact of imperialism on the ruling nations.

A study of Third World Literature, film, and theory that emerged during and after Western rule.

An introduction to the detective genre, examining its origins, its characteristics, and its intersections with empiricism, forensic science, race, class, gender, sex, and empire.

A historical and critical survey of nineteenth- and twentieth-century short stories, including Irish, British, American, and Continental authors.

A historically oriented survey of British prose fiction from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries.  This course will show you why the British novel is “classic,” but also how it is a profoundly weird, weird form.

This is an intensive study of international cinema. The goals of the class will be to develop students’ capacity to read film, to articulate original responses to the medium, to enjoy difficult movies and to become A1 cinephiles. The class will make you sweat. The films, too. Particular attention will be given to the development of film form, image and sound editing and the what you, the viewer, do to make the movie come alive, even after the final credits. Some of the movements we will cover in weekly readings and screenings include Film Noir, the French New Wave, Direct Cinema, and the Dogme 95 group. Films range from Last Year at Marienbad to Borat. Directors include Fred Wiseman, Nicholas Roeg, Agnes Varda, Abbas Kiarostami, Roman Polanski, and John Waters.